Deze scriptie bespreekt het functioneren van de Gereformeerde Kerk in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) als instituut en onderdeel van het koloniale systeem in de achttiende eeuw. Dit wordt gedaan aan de hand van...Show moreDeze scriptie bespreekt het functioneren van de Gereformeerde Kerk in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) als instituut en onderdeel van het koloniale systeem in de achttiende eeuw. Dit wordt gedaan aan de hand van drie verschillende uitdagingen waar de Kerk mee te maken kreeg: de interne problematiek, de omgang met (lokale) kerkleden en de omgang met ‘andersgelovigen’ (hernhutters, boeddhisten, hindoes en katholieken).Show less
Zowel Nederland als de Republiek Indonesië hadden het, door de net beëindigde Tweede Wereldoorlog, financieel moeilijk. Zij hadden grote moeite om de strijd tegen elkaar, die was losgebroken, te...Show moreZowel Nederland als de Republiek Indonesië hadden het, door de net beëindigde Tweede Wereldoorlog, financieel moeilijk. Zij hadden grote moeite om de strijd tegen elkaar, die was losgebroken, te kunnen bekostigen. Om aan geld en wapens voor hun strijd tegen Nederland te komen, werd door de Indonesiërs ingezet op uitgebreide smokkelhandel. De Republiek Indonesië had met deze smokkelhandel in 1946 al een aanzienlijk bedrag aan inkomsten weten binnen te halen. Het probleem van de Republikeinse smokkelhandel hield de Nederlandse gemoederen dan ook danig bezig. Reden voor de Procureur-Generaal te Batavia en zijn team om initiatieven te gaan ontplooien om genoemde Republikeinse smokkelactiviteiten tegen te gaan. Hierop wordt in deze scriptie ingegaan.Show less
In this interdisciplinary thesis, I use history and anthropology to research the influence of migration history on the identity construct of Hindostani people in the Netherlands. The work is...Show moreIn this interdisciplinary thesis, I use history and anthropology to research the influence of migration history on the identity construct of Hindostani people in the Netherlands. The work is anthropological because I created data by interviewing 23 participants about their lives and experiences, and historical because I used a framework of scholars who have researched the complex fields of identity, colonialism, migration, and transnational history or have specifically researched Hindostani people and their history. Combining these datasets, I present a case study that goes in depth to find out what the influence of colonial migration is on Hindostani people in a ‘postcolonial’ society such as the Netherlands. The conclusion is a careful but meaningful one, as it offers insights into both the people I interviewed and the society in which they live. This study shows that identity is so complex and personal that migration history has divergent meaning and effect on the lives of individual Hindostanis, so that even pointers such as age and gender cannot indicate the importance of that history to a Hindostani person. The only exception to this was religion, as religious participants ascribed more meaning to their migration history. Their history played a large part in the constructing of their identity and in the raising of their children. Lastly, I argue that both interdisciplinary and microhistory, even though small-scale, are key to historical research, especially of colonial history, by creating data and writing with the people who are the embodiment of that history.Show less
This thesis unearths the reasons and process behind the late eighteenth century codification projects of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) and examines their translation into legal practice in...Show moreThis thesis unearths the reasons and process behind the late eighteenth century codification projects of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) and examines their translation into legal practice in colonial court. Drawing from records of official correspondence and original civil and criminal case files archived at the Arsip Nasional Republik Indonesia (Jakarta) and the Nationaal Archief (The Hague), it presents an analysis of (Dutch) colonial legal practice in a legally plural environment in which both colonial structures of power and local agency are considered.Show less
This thesis will argue that the collaboration between local elites in Aceh, the uleebalang, and the Dutch colonials after the establishment of civil governance in 1918 was an uneasy one. In...Show moreThis thesis will argue that the collaboration between local elites in Aceh, the uleebalang, and the Dutch colonials after the establishment of civil governance in 1918 was an uneasy one. In contrast with existing historiography that depicted the position of uleebalang merely as the henchmen of the colonial authorities, this thesis will examine a specific event, that is the involvement of several uleebalang in North Aceh into the mass organization Sarekat Islam (Union of Islam) in the 1920s, to provide new insight into the nature of the collaboration and the making of modern political life in Aceh. In brief, this case presented anxiety and distrust of Dutch officials towards their local collaborator, the uleebalang, due to their activity in Sarekat Islam. By focusing on 1918-1923, this thesis attempts to analyze how Aceh was integrated into the colonial administration of the Dutch East Indies by means of collaboration with its local elites, the uleebalang. Rather than looking at the selected events of Sarekat Islam in North Aceh merely as local dynamics as previous research has done, this thesis will discuss the connection between local events with wider networks of anti-colonial resistance in the Dutch East Indies between 1918-1923. In doing so, this thesis aims to fill the gap in the historiography of colonial Aceh in its early years of civil rule while also contributing to the historiography of colonial civil administration of the Dutch East Indies.Show less
Hoe heeft het beeld van de bevolking van koloniale gebieden in Nederlandse politieke teksten en reisdagboeken zich ontwikkeld tussen 1800-1830 en hoe is dit beïnvloed door de Verlichting en contact...Show moreHoe heeft het beeld van de bevolking van koloniale gebieden in Nederlandse politieke teksten en reisdagboeken zich ontwikkeld tussen 1800-1830 en hoe is dit beïnvloed door de Verlichting en contact met de lokale bevolking?Show less
This thesis focuses on the period at the end of the nineteenth century when knowledge of the colonized cultures and their histories became an integral part of European imperial policies. In the...Show moreThis thesis focuses on the period at the end of the nineteenth century when knowledge of the colonized cultures and their histories became an integral part of European imperial policies. In the search for tools legitimizing their overseas venture, architecture turned out to be one of the most visual and lasting tools for boosting such efforts. It is precisely by exploring this aspect of empire-building through architecture that my thesis attempts to redress the lacunae of historical research on colonial architecture as a measure for studying colonial history. Conventional historiography has largely neglected this aspect of empire-building, leaving much of it for architects, urbanists and art historians to deal with. Most of the scholarly contributions to colonial architecture have not yet been able to sufficiently expose the underlying imperial designs or the socio-cultural processes behind such building projects. In this thesis, I have made attempts to trace these processes and examine them from a comparative perspective using Foucault’s power/knowledge dimension. By pitching the three former Asian colonies of British-India, Dutch-Indies and French-Indochina next to each other and analysing the hybrid architecture found in their main public buildings, the ways in which the colonial government tried to impress the people through their building styles can be revealed. They resorted to the incorporation of often randomly mixed local architectural elements into buildings which looked European otherwise. This resulted in buildings depicting hybrid architectural styles. Such designs reflected a self-proclaimed European mastery in managing knowledge of the colonized cultures. In trying to claim their legitimacy as new rulers, colonial governments went to great lengths, using the visual qualities of architecture to shield a relatively weak system. The erection of confident and mighty stone facades, however, did little to bury the lingering orientalist prejudices and the inherent unequal status of the colonizers and the colonized. In fact, the knowledge on local histories generated by the colonizers helped create local identities that gave a boost to the upcoming nationalistic movements. But there were interesting differences among the colonies though, that this comparative exercise laid bare. The nuances manifested in the different colonies in terms of the willingness to spend financial resources, the often conflicting objectives between colonial institutions, the effects of shifting colonial policies and the paradoxical underlying principles that defined those policies, and other contextual factors, led to differences in imperial policies and their consequent architectural plans. By probing into these differences as well as by highlighting the similarities cutting across all the three colonies, my thesis contributes to understanding the varying shades of colonialism through the seemingly silent yet starkly telling structures.Show less
In the historiography about education for Indonesian children in the Netherlands Indies, a legislative approach predominates. This causes a disregard for non-governmental educational initiatives,...Show moreIn the historiography about education for Indonesian children in the Netherlands Indies, a legislative approach predominates. This causes a disregard for non-governmental educational initiatives, and for those that that occurred outside Java. In this thesis, through in-dept analysis of schools in Java, the Minahasa and South New Guinea, educational ideologies and practices are researched while focusing on the question of how, and why, native childhoods were constructed in these contexts. 'Age' is a leading category of analysis here. This thesis shows that educational projects were not about 'uplifiting' children in the sense of social mobility. On the contrary, educators aimed at maintaining social hierarchies. This conclusion opens up space for a revision of the meaning of the Dutch 'civilizing mission' in the Netherlands Indies.Show less
