Division of History or Society ?

History 

            A crucial element of the discipline is its division into different periods. the Europe witnessed the evolution of the notion of periodisation in the history, which started in 16th century and instituted it in 17th century, before this it was alien to other societies. A German, Christoph Cellarius, in 1688, formalised the tripartite division of history into ancient, medieval and modern.

Ancient, medieval and modern

James Mill's notorious book, "A History of British India", published in 1817, implantation of distorted view about the history of India by division of Indian history into Hindu, Muslim and British periods.

             Can we divide the history of any society or civilizations on the basis religion or Hindu-Muslim, and if it is so, then British period, i.e the third period according to James Mill, supposed to be Christian period rather British. Whereas the ancient, medieval, and modern nomenclature implied Europe's emergence from dark age to modern age of Enlightenment, reason through its own autonomous evolution. India in Mill's vision, was still stuck  in its "backwardness", and "dark age", of which British were obligated to rescue it.

              Mill also believe that there were irrecouncilable hostility between the Hindu and Muslims, therefore he was a precursor of the two nation theory of Savarkar and Jinnah, thus the division of history in such manner not just divided the history on the basis of religion, but the Indian society on the religious lines as well. such a distorted notion of the division of history pawes the way fot division of society in long run.