The History of British India

by James Mill

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Genres: History, Nonfiction, India

599 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1817

About the author

James Mill (born James Milne) was a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher. He is counted among the founders of the Ricardian school of economics. His son, John Stuart Mill, was also a noted philosopher of liberalism, utilitarianism and the civilizing mission of the British Empire.

Although he never set foot in India at any time in his life, James Mill took upon himself the task of writing the monumental History of British India, a classic of colonial self-congratulation which contains a complete denunciation and rejection of Indian culture and civilisation and which both exhorts and extolls the civilizing mission of the British in the subcontinent. He was the first writer to divide Indian history into three parts: Hindu, Muslim and British, a classification which has proved surpassingly influential in the field of Indian historical studies, but which is seen in recent decades as being deeply problematic.

Reviews

[Jack Rao]

If you genuinely seek misinformation, bigoted view through the lenses of an imperialist with closed mind, distorted facts, thorough absence of cultural understanding, historical lies, read this book. Obviously it was commissioned by the imperialists to justify their horrific oppression and exploitation, and to camouflage the brutality by the Brits.

[Iqra Tasmiae]

https://scroll.in/article/721012/why-...

[Galicius · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read only Chapter 1 to find out how British imperialism began the colonisation of India.

[Sammy · Rating 1 out of 5]

Yikes. Some works don't age well...