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resolved.
First Debate
Dark Age: It has to do with whether the eighteenth century was a dark age
or not.
While colonial writers like James Mill and the early Indian historians like
Jadunath Sarkar and Iswari Prasad and even Tara Chand saw this century as a
twilight period, characterized by decline in all areas of life, from the economic
to the political to the cultural.
According to them, the Mughal empire collapsed, regional powers failed to
establish empires and stability returned only with the spread of British
supremacy in the late 18th Century. It suited the British writers of the
Cambridge History of India, and their Indian followers, to paint the 18th
Century as black so that British rule would show up as a blessing in
comparison.
Manifestation:
Second Debate
The second debate revolves around whether the eighteenth century can be
seen as one