The history of the India is divided into ancient ,medival, and modern periods. This has been done to show that the society, economy, political and culture of each period are very different from those of the other periods. The difference between medival times and modern times have been faster and more far reaching than ever before.
You have already read about the ancient and the medical periods in India in your previous classes. Let us now turn toward the modern periods of India which covers the period between 1707and 1947AD.
The modern period first started in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Europe. It started later in India around the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.