UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 2012 · Q1(a) · 12 marks
“The current practice of categorisation of ‘Early Modern India’ is based on a shift from the old imperialist periodization of ‘Muslim India’ – ‘British India’ to the more secularist one of ‘Medieval India’ – ‘Modern India’, which puts Indian history in a universalist chronological structure.
- Chapter
- Early Structure of the British Raj
- Topic
- Periodisation of Indian History
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