1.
James Rennel
was asked by Robert Clive to produce maps of Hindustan. An enthusiastic supporter
of British conquest of India, Rennel saw preparation of maps as essential to
the process of domination.
2.
Britannia –
the symbol of British power.
3.
In 1817,
James Mill, a Scottish economist and political philosopher, published a massive
three-volume work, A History of British India. In this he divided Indian
history into three periods – Hindu, Muslim and British.
4.
Moving away
from British classification, historians have usually divided Indian history
into ‘ancient’, ‘medieval’ and ‘modern’.
5.
The National
Archives of India came up in the 1920s.
6.
The practice
of surveying also became common under the colonial administration. The British
believed that a country had to be properly known before it could be effectively
administered.
7.
From the end
of the nineteenth century, Census operations were held every ten years. These
prepared detailed records of the number of people in all the provinces of
India, noting information on castes, religions and occupation.
8.
There were
many other surveys– botanical surveys, zoological surveys, archaeological surveys,
anthropological surveys, forest surveys.
source: 8th NCERT History Chapter 1
source: 8th NCERT History Chapter 1