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Boogaart, Doreen van den (2020)

Petitioning the Dutch East India Company: Petitions as entries to the lived experience of Dutch colonialism around the uprising of 1790 in the Matara district, southern Sri Lanka

Research master thesis | History (research) (MA)
The colonial petition is a valuable source to get insight into the condition of colonised humanity. This thesis discusses forty-four petitions written in 1790 by peasant-cultivators in the Matara district. The petitioners transmitted these petitions to colonial officials in the first three months of an uprising in the countryside of Sri Lanka. The question this study aims to answer is: “How do petitions written during a protest in 1790 convey the resistance, negotiation, and experience of Dutch colonialism by inhabitants of the Matara dessavony?”
VOC
Dutch colonialism
colonialism
Dutch East India Company
Sri Lanka
colonial petition
petitioning
Subaltern
Author
Boogaart, Doreen van den
Faculty
Faculty of Humanities
Specialisation
Colonial and Global HIstory
Supervisors
Schrikker, Alicia
ECTS Credits
30
Language
en