How James mill devided history of …

James Mill divided Indian history into Hindu. Muslim and Christian periods. This periodication is based on religious lines that there was a phase for which the Hindus were the rulers and other's were ruled. Then came the phase of the Muslims or Christians (i.e., Britishers). He had a colonial bent of mind and thought Asians to have poorly civilized. He thought Europeans to be superior. So in fact, through this periodisation he tried to divide the people with their own specific identity, which was not a truth. During the Muslim rule there were thousands of Hindu kings. The same was the case during the Christian period when India had thousands of local Hindu and Muslim princely states. In any case it was not proper to refer to any period of history as 'Hindu' or 'Muslim'. It was also improper to characterise an age only through the religion of the rulers of the time. Hence, Mill's periodisation of Indian history was not up to the mark.

James Mill divided Indian history into Hindu. Muslim and Christian periods. This periodication is based on religious lines that there was a phase for which the Hindus were the rulers and other's were ruled. Then came the phase of the Muslims or Christians (i.e., Britishers). He had a colonial bent of mind and thought Asians to have poorly civilized. He thought Europeans to be superior. So in fact, through this periodisation he tried to divide the people with their own specific identity, which was not a truth. During the Muslim rule there were thousands of Hindu kings. The same was the case during the Christian period when India had thousands of local Hindu and Muslim princely states. In any case it was not proper to refer to any period of history as 'Hindu' or 'Muslim'. It was also improper to characterise an age only through the religion of the rulers of the time. Hence, Mill's periodisation of Indian history was not up to the mark.