Being Dutch in the Indies
by Bosma, UlbeEdition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2008-05-06
Publisher(s): Ohio Univ Pr
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Summary
Being "Dutch" in the Indies portrays Dutch colonial territories in Asia not as mere societies under foreign occupation but rather as a "Creole empire". Most of colonial society, up to the highest levels, consisted of people of mixed Dutch and Asian descent who were born in the Indies and considered it their home, but were legally Dutch. They played a major role in the plantation industry, commerce, local government and even early anti-colonial nationalism. This old world came to an end after World War I, when people born in Europe began to dominate government and business, and Indonesian nationalism rejected the Creole notion of imperial belonging.
Author Biography
Ulbe Bosma is senior researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.
Remco Raben is senior researcher in Asian history at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation in Amsterdam and teaches history at Utrecht University.
Remco Raben is senior researcher in Asian history at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation in Amsterdam and teaches history at Utrecht University.
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | p. viii |
| Abbreviations | p. x |
| Acknowledgements | p. xi |
| Prologue | p. xiii |
| Separation and Fusion | p. 1 |
| Crossroad of peoples | p. 1 |
| Europeans | p. 8 |
| Colonies and classifications | p. 14 |
| Racism and mestisation | p. 21 |
| The Baggage of Colonialism | p. 26 |
| Christian discipline | p. 26 |
| Marriage and citizenship | p. 33 |
| Mixtures in Ceylon | p. 38 |
| Javanese circuit | p. 42 |
| Slave children | p. 46 |
| Asian Burghers | p. 51 |
| Career in the Dutch East Indies | p. 54 |
| Demarcation lines | p. 59 |
| Contraction | p. 66 |
| The shrinking world of the Indies | p. 66 |
| Malaccan diaspora | p. 72 |
| Citizens of Ceylon | p. 76 |
| New masters, old patterns | p. 83 |
| In the service of England | p. 89 |
| Landed gentry and powerful merchants | p. 94 |
| Lordly Traditions and Plantation Industrialism | p. 104 |
| The Principalities | p. 106 |
| Two contrasting worlds: Surakarta and Yogyakarta | p. 112 |
| The economic cycle of Central Java | p. 119 |
| Landholders in the Sunda | p. 124 |
| Dissolving views | p. 128 |
| Ups and downs of life in the Principalities | p. 134 |
| The noble landlord | p. 137 |
| Mixed Worlds in the Eastern Archipelago | p. 143 |
| Makassar | p. 144 |
| Wide is the sea and Banda small | p. 150 |
| Variations of mestisation | p. 159 |
| Ternate: economic stagnation and social mobility | p. 161 |
| Ambon: citizens, civil servants and migrants | p. 166 |
| Soldiers and teachers | p. 173 |
| Civil servants of Makassar | p. 176 |
| Rank and Status | p. 184 |
| Newcomers | p. 184 |
| Competition | p. 188 |
| Anxious fathers and voices of rancour | p. 194 |
| A distinctly "Indische" voice | p. 201 |
| Schooling | p. 206 |
| Opportunities | p. 211 |
| Race and status in the world of the East Indies | p. 215 |
| The Underclass | p. 219 |
| Upstairs, downstairs | p. 219 |
| Civic registry | p. 223 |
| The discovery of pauperism | p. 228 |
| Living on charity | p. 236 |
| Life in the barracks | p. 244 |
| Propagating the artisan | p. 250 |
| Crisis and Change in the Indische World | p. 258 |
| Family firms in an age of economic consolidation | p. 262 |
| Aftermath of the agricultural crisis | p. 266 |
| Survival strategies | p. 269 |
| Cris de coeur of early nationalism | p. 276 |
| Recognition for Jong Indie | p. 280 |
| Two newspapers: De Oosterling and De Telefoon | p. 284 |
| "Indische": Defined and Identified | p. 293 |
| Indische grievances and the prejudices of the motherland | p. 297 |
| The Indische Bond, the union for Indo-Europeans | p. 305 |
| The Indo-pauper revisited | p. 309 |
| Discrimination and education | p. 313 |
| The Indische Party | p. 320 |
| The Dutch East Indies: old and new | p. 328 |
| A fork in the road | p. 334 |
| Epilogue: End of an Old World | p. 339 |
| Glossary | p. 344 |
| Notes | p. 348 |
| Bibliography | p. 392 |
| Index | p. 421 |
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