"......history
generally happens to be the story of human experience in a certain political
or cultural region. By history of India we mean the history of human
experience in all its facets in the country which we call 'India' today.
The division of history of India, or for that matter of any country,
into Ancient,
Medieval and Modern,
is at best artificial. For while universal human experience in any one
area may have a diffused and even negligible effect on another, there
is a continuous chain of causation running from the remotest times to
the present day in much the same way as there is an unbroken chain of
generations." H.K Sherwani