Dutch East India Company Research Papers (original) (raw)

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- Art History, Chinese Studies, Transnational and World History, World History

The built environment was an important determinant of social behavior, particularly segregation, in the colonial city of Batavia. Built in 1619 to establish a Dutch administrative and cultural headquarters in Southeast Asia for the Dutch East India Company (VOC), Batavia evinced the general principles of seventeenth-century Dutch planning back in the Netherlands, including a layout that imposed order on the city's diverse population. But Batavia accomplished this order even more stringently, structuring it to secure Dutch domination. To further reinforce this control, VOC administrators were eager for Dutch citizens to express a cohesive Dutch identity. Despite this desire, Dutch Batavians developed ostentatious displays of rank through costume and behavior, which provoked a series of sumptuary codes. This preoccupation with rank among the Dutch populace signaled the same hierarchy within the social fabric of Batavia that was encoded in the very form of this planned city.

- by Marsely Kehoe
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- Urban History, Colonialism, 17th Century Dutch Republic, Urban Design

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- by Meike von Brescius
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- Economics, Eighteenth Century Trade, Global History, Merchants
- by Siegfried Huigen
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- History, Cultural History, Anthropology, Ethnography

The retail of alcohol was so central to the economy and society of the Cape of Good Hope during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that it earned the nickname “tavern of two oceans”. This retail business was organised on the so-called
lease or monopoly ('pacht') system whereby a person paid the authorities for the right to sell a certain type of alcohol for a given period in a specific area. This article traces the intellectual origins of this system of alcohol retail at the Cape during the VOC era. It does so by tracing both the idea of using leases or monopolies, first in the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century, and by investigating the ways in which various products, including alcohol, were leased off in the largest and most significant of the VOC’s colonies, Batavia, during the first half of the seventeenth century. It is demonstrated that the ways in which alcohol retail and other economic activities were organised at the Cape developed out of practices established elsewhere in the seventeenth-century Dutch world, but that the exact nature of the system was adapted to unique local circumstances at the early Cape. As such, this comparative article serves as an illustration that developments at the Cape in such a central sphere as business practices were the product of both global and local forces and influences.

This is the English-language version of the Powerpoint on 'British Naval Power and the Political Situation of Indonesia, 1795-1942: The Netherlands Indies and the Cities of the Archipelago in the Vortex of Global History ' which I presented at the 2nd Annual Forum of the Journal of Maritime Studies and National Integration at the Universitas Diponegoro (UNDIP) in Semarang on 28 October 2020. The article which accompanies this PowerPoint will be published in JMSNI in December 2020. The paper looks at the role played by the Royal Navy in guaranteeing the security of the Netherlands Indies from 31 January-8 February 1795, when the Dutch Stadhouder (Head of State), Willem V (r. 1751-1806), issued the so-called 'Kew Letters' from his place of exile in London instructing the heads of all Dutch trading posts east of the Cape of Good Hope to hand their possessions over to the British to prevent them falling into French hands, up to 27 February 1942 when the remaining British naval presence in SE Asia was destroyed. This destruction followed the fall of Singapore (15 February 1942), when the British, along with the American, Australian and Dutch naval assets, were comprehensively defeated in the Battle of the Java Sea by a Japanese fleet under the command of Admiral Takeo Takagi, tasked with protecting General Imamura's 16th Army conquest of Java.

- by Peter B R Carey and +1
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- Military History, International Relations, Indonesian History, Maritime History

Publieksbeschrijving: Alva zit op een troon, gekleed in een wapenrusting en met het Gulden Vlies om. De scepter in zijn hand geeft zijn (militaire) macht aan. Aan zijn rechterhand (dus links) staat kardinaal Granvelle. Hij geeft Alva met een blaasbalg slechte raad in. Granvelle bemoeide zich vanuit Rome en Spanje nog steeds met de zaken in de Nederlanden. Aan Alva's linkerhand (dus rechts) staan raadgevers en helpers. v.l.n.r. Juan de Vargas Mejía, voorzitter van de Raad van Beroerten (op dit schilderij lijkt hij op Willem van Oranje); bisschop Maarten Rijthoven van Yperen: Loys dal Río, lid van de Raad van Beroerten; Broeder Cornelis uit Brugge; een felle verdediger van het katholiek geloof; de Heer van Beckerseele, secretaris van Egmont (hij is hier afgebeeld als ter dood veroordeelde); de 3 andere mannen zijn onbekend maar kunnen andere leden van de Raad van Beroerten zijn. Boven Alva zweeft een duivel die een keizerstroon boven Alva's en een pauskroon (tiara) boven Granvelle's hoofd houdt. De kronen zijn symbolen van de wereldlijke en geestelijke macht. Bij Granvelle staan edelen die trouw aan Spanje blijven. De 2 honden zijn het symbool van trouw. Midden voor zijn de 17 Nederlandse gewesten, voorgesteld als vrouwen. Zij zijn getekend en Alva houdt de kettingen vast. Rechts staan de Staten-Generaal; ze staan 'verstomd' met de vingers voor de mond en "verstaakt". Dat wil zeggen ze zijn onder Alva monddood gemaakt en kunnen zich niet meer bewegen. In de 20e eeuw zouden wij zeggen: ze staan voor paal; hoewel dit een iets andere betekenis heeft. Attributen: Alva houdt een lastbrief van Filips II in zijn hand, naast de troon staat een spaarpot voor de 10e en 100e penning. Op de trede van de troon ligt een kruisbeeld. Op de voorgrond ligt een bijbel omgekeerd, vertrapt door Alva. Rechts liggen 2 verscheurde oorkonden, symbool van de afgeschafte privileges. Op de achtergrond v.l.n.r.

Eight months into its maiden voyage to the Indies, the Dutch East India Company’s Batavia sank on 4 June 1629 on Morning Reef in the Houtman Abrolhos off the western coast of Australia. Wendy van Duivenvoorde’s five-year study was aimed at reconstructing the hull of Batavia, the only excavated remains of an early seventeenth-century Indiaman to have been raised and conserved in a way that permits detailed examination, using data retrieved from the archaeological remains, interpreted in the light of company archives, ship journals, and Dutch texts on shipbuilding of this period. Over two hundred tables, charts, drawings, and photographs are included.

- by Lennart Bes
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- History of India, Archives, Colonial Archives, Dutch East India Company

WPROWADZENIE Narodzinom refleksji nad zjawiskami ekonomicznymi towarzyszyła ciekawość w przedmiocie źródeł i natury bogactwa (wealth). Zasadność tej dociekliwości wynikała z obserwowania występujących różnic ekonomicznych nie tylko między narodami, lecz także między ludźmi. Celem artykułu jest próba odpowiedzi na pod-stawowe pytanie: czy i w jakim zakresie handel może być instrumentem kreowania wartości, a w konsekwencji bogactwa. Pretekstem do podjęcia dyskusji na ten temat są studia nad historią działalności Brytyjskiej Kompanii Wschodnioindyjskiej. Studium tego przypadku dostarczy nie tylko ciekawego materiału empirycznego, ale pozwoli skonfrontować teorię międzynarodowej wymiany ze stosowaną prak-tyką, w historii i współcześnie. Handel nie jest i nigdy nie był traktowany w historii myśli ekonomicznej jako czynnik produkcji 1. Nie ma charakteru zasobu, co nie znaczy, że nie może nabie-rać charakteru produktywności. Z jednej strony akt wymiany, sam z siebie, nie zwiększa ilości dóbr w gospodarce. Z drugiej strony we wszystkich epokach i na wszystkich szerokościach geograficznych był to sektor, który stwarzał możliwo-ści dla powstawania wielkich, prywatnych i zbiorowych, również o charakterze narodowym, fortun. Solidność badawcza wymaga, aby prezentowane w tej pracy podejście makro uzupełnione było o skalę mikro, co odpowiadałoby hybrydo-wej konstrukcji Brytyjskiej Kompanii Wschodnioindyjskiej (British East India Company, EIC), występującej w historii nie tylko jako instrument brytyjskiego imperializmu, ale głównie jako prywatna spółka handlowa.

- by Łukasz Gołota
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- East India Company, Dutch East India Company

長崎市悟真寺に現存する、日本最古の西洋人墓碑、出島商館長ヘンドリック・デュルコープ墓碑について。デュルコープの略歴と、墓碑にまつわる日蘭双方の史資料について紹介・考察。
About the gravestone of Hendrik Duurkoop (1736-1778), director of the Dutch trading post at Dejima, Nagasaki, known as the oldest grave monument of western people in Japan. Mainly focusing on the documental evidences ever made about the gravestone in both Dutch and Japanese languages, together with the brief biography of Duurkoop.

- by Ryuji Hiraoka
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- Japanese Religions, History of Japan, Japanese History, Dutch East India Company

In design analysis it is important to have a clear understanding of the
psychological condition of the user of a particular object. The unique
relationship between people and the objects they use could interpret their sociopolitical and cultural development through application of theories drawn from disciplines of history, archaeology, and anthropology. In a domestic environment apart from clothing and food, furniture can be 􀂯􀂚􀂝􀂼􀃗􀂯􀃵􀂝􀂚􀀃􀁿􀃒􀀃􀂻􀃁􀃒􀃗􀀃􀂨􀃎􀂝􀃍􀃜􀂝􀂼􀃗􀂵􀃬􀀃􀃜􀃒􀂝􀂚􀀃􀃁􀂒􀂱􀂝􀂓􀃗􀃒􀄯􀀃􀃦􀂭􀂯􀂓􀂭􀀃􀃌􀂝􀃁􀃌􀂵􀂝􀀃􀂻􀁿􀂯􀂼􀃗􀁿􀂯􀂼􀂝􀂚􀀃􀁿􀀃􀂓􀂵􀃁􀃒􀂝􀀃 relationship with. This has developed over the years to be questioned to a point as to why a person sits on a particular chair? Does it appeal to him?
Does this piece of furniture suit his lifestyle? Hence a constant conversation builds up between the object, user and the society. Sri Lanka, a country that has been under European dominance for many centuries has resulted in a scattered indigenous culture. Due to political changes, the social structure of society has drastically and selectively changed to what we know of, in present day as ‘caste’ to ‘class’. In such a social structure, objects began
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notion considering furniture as a social apparatus, through the perspective of design analysis and material culture studies in order to identify the cultural transformation brought about through the revolution of furniture.

- by Peter Borschberg
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- Economic History, Pharmacology, Medical Sciences, Pharmacy

Closed, isolated, sealed off -- these are all terms that have been used to describe Japan from the time the Portuguese were expelled in 1639 until commercial treaties permitting free trade were concluded in 1856. During this time, the only Westerners permitted into Japan were the dozen or so Dutch East India Company servants, who were crowded onto tiny Deshima Island in the Bay of Nagasaki after 1641. These would not seem to be ideal conditions for cultural influence. But every year Company vessels transported hundreds of objects into Japan that reflected European taste and technological accomplishment.
This study examines how European material culture moved through the world of Early Modern Japan from port to end-user. Company trade, private trade, smuggling and gift-giving practices are elucidated through the extensive use of the archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and its successors, personal archives and Japanese sources. Focused case studies on clocks and clockwork, glass and firearms show the ongoing influence of Europe on Japan, demolishing forever the idea that Japan was culturally isolated.

Trincomalee-Koddiyar Bay is one of the most strategically valuable natural harbours in Sri Lanka which acted as the main gateway to the Kandyan kingdom, as well as to SouthEastern Asia. The harbour and its surroundings were frequently mapped and updated in various maps. When lining up these maps from older to new, it is apparent how the early cartographers updated their maps with new information. If we disregard the famous map of Ptolemy's, it took almost five centuries to appear an accurate map of Trincomalee. The present study is

- by Thilanka Siriwardana
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- Historical Geography, Portuguese History, Dutch East India Company, Mapping

Ali Kavani (Farsi translation) got his MA degree in History from the University of Tehran in 2002. In 2003, he finished the Advanced Masters Program of the TANAP programme at Leiden University. In 2008, he got his PhD from the University of Tehran. The idea of creating this website was his.
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https://dutchgrammar.org/farsi-persian-edition/

- by Dr. Rajabali Kavani
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- Iranian Studies, History of Iran, Iranian History, Dutch

This dissertation examines the political economy of the Ganga River during the early modern period. Thematically, the seven chapters of the dissertation may be categorized in three broad divisions. Taking a longue durée perspective, the first two chapters situate the Ganga and its plain in the wider cultural and geographical framework of the Indian subcontinent. While Chapter 1 is concerned with the central role of the Ganga in Indian culture and civilization since the first millennium BC, Chapter 2 discusses early migration and the settlement pattern along the Ganga by paying close attention to the environmental predispositions of the region. The second broad division relates to the Ganga as connecting and feeding the political economy of northern India during the early modern period. The Ganga linked the region with the maritime economy, facilitated navigation, transportation of merchandise and also facilitated political control. Thus, Chapters 3 to 6 examine the political economic processes along the Ganga in eastern India, the integration of the regional commercial economy with the maritime global economy, bullion flows and production processes of such merchandise as saltpeter, opium and textiles. As Bihar offered these commodities, its economy pulled the maritime traders who approached the region through the Ganga highway. The inflows of specie boosted the economy and the agricultural and craft-productions kept pace with the increasing demands in overseas markets. Benefitting from the expanding economy of Bihar, the zamindars (warlords-cum-gentry) asserted their control over the Ganga and chocked the flow of resources to the Mughal imperial coffers and thus paving the way for Mughal decline in the eighteenth century. The third and last thematic division in Chapter 7 focuses on the decline of the Mughal Empire, zamindar-led regional centralization, and the political transition to EIC rule.

- by Murari Jha
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- Southeast Asian Studies, Early Modern History, South Asian Studies, Indian Ocean World
- by Mark Beumer
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- History, Slavery, History of Slavery, Colonialism
- by Wendy van Duivenvoorde and +1
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- History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Archaeology

A guidebook on the traces of the history of slavery and the slave trade in the Dutch province of Groningen. Walking and cycling routes along 57 locations. Abstract in Dutch: De Gouden Eeuw in Nederland had een keerzijde in de vorm van slavenhandel en slavernij. Dat gold ook voor Groningen, waar een eigen Kamer van de West-Indische Compagnie werd opgericht met een scheepswerf aan de Noorderhaven. Van daaruit voeren schepen naar de Afrikaanse kusten om tot slaaf gemaakte Afrikanen op te kopen en ze naar de overzijde van de Atlantische Oceaan te verschepen. Vooraanstaande Groningers investeerden in de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC), de West-Indische Compagnie (WIC) en in plantages in Suriname en op de Antillen. Na het afschaffen van de slavernij werden velen van hen of hun nazaten in Nederland financieel gecompenseerd voor het verlies van hun slaven. Deze lucratieve geschiedenis speelde zich niet alleen af overzee; zij werkte ook door in de stad Groningen en Ommelanden. Sporen van het koloniale verleden en de slavernij die daarmee gepaard ging, zijn nog steeds aanwijsbaar. Het statige Calmershuis in de Oude Boteringestraat behoorde toe aan Thomas van Seeratt, die voorafgaand aan een glansrijke carrière als commies-provinciaal in Groningen zijn fortuin vergaarde als slavenhandelaar in dienst van de WIC. Ook buiten de stad, op borgen en in kerken, vinden we sporen van het slavernijverleden. Op de borg Nienoord in Leek bevindt zich een reproductie van het portret van de 17e eeuwse jonkvrouwe Anna van Ewsum in het gezelschap van een zwarte bediende. Deze gids voert u langs zo'n 57 locaties, gelegen langs een wandelroute in de stad en meerdere fietsroutes in de provincie.

- by Wim De Winter
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- Cultural History, Economic History, Japanese Studies, Historical Anthropology
- by Lennart Bes
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- Archives, Bangladesh, Dutch East India Company

The imperative of the long-distance seaborne trade of Europeans, from the age of exploration, was to acquire the goods of the exotic East – the silks and porcelains and tea of China, the spices of the spice islands and the textiles of India. Goods from the East focuses on the trade in fine products: how they were made, marketed and distributed between Asia and Europe. This trade was conducted by East India Companies and many private traders, and the first Global Age that resulted deeply affected European consumption and manufacturing. This book provides a full comparative and connective study of Asia's trade with a range of European countries. Its themes relate closely to issues of fine manufacturing and luxury goods in the current age of globalization. Goods from the East brings together established scholars, such as Jan de Vries, Om Prakash and Josh Gommans, and a new generation of researchers, who together look into the connections between European consumer cultures and Asian trade.

- by Felicia Gottmann and +2
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- History, European History, Early Modern History, Material Culture Studies

a much-needed study of the history of rangaku, the study of the West by the Japanese through the medium of books in Dutch. In this book he ably and succinctly summarized Japanese scholarship which had been published on the topic up to that time. In 1986, he published a revised version of this text, Japan: The Dutch Experience, of which the book under review here is (except for the jacket and the title page) an exact reprint. When the second edition appeared, Professor Goodman was criticized for some rather obvious omissions of scholarship which had been published in the interval between 1967 and 1986, 1 a situation which now, fourteen years later, has only grown worse. But for the change in the title there would seem to be little need to review this book once more, and therefore 1 Marius B. Jansen's review of Japan: The Dutch Experience in the Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 13, 2 (1987): 466. adopting new technology from the West is, of course, the idea that, from a Japanese perspective, English is nothing more than a dialect of Dutch, and that, if one is familiar with Dutch, one just has to change around a few vowels in order to start making sense out of English. Of course, American and British scholars have always lovingly quoted Fukuzawa Yukichi, who wrote in his autobiography: "I had been striving with all my powers for many years to learn the Dutch language. And now when I had reason to believe myself one of the best in the country, I found I could not even read the signs of merchants who had come to trade with us from foreign lands." 2 But Fukuzawa also wrote that his dismay was only temporary and that he and his contemporaries found that: "After a while we came to see that English was a language not so entirely foreign to us as we had thought. Our fear in the beginning that we were to find all our labor and hope expended on Dutch to have been spent in vain, and that we were to go through the same hardship twice in our lives proved happily wrong. In truth, Dutch and English were both . . . . of the same origin. Our knowledge of Dutch could be applied directly to English; our one-time fear was a groundless illusion." 3

This article explores the treatment of unmarried mothers by the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) at the Cape of Good Hope during the VOC period (1652-1795) in the belief that by concentrating on this exceptional group of people much is revealed of normative practices. For most of its history at the Cape during this period the DRC was not overly biased against unmarried mothers and their illegitimate children, continuing to baptise such children and never acting against the mothers. This changed in the 1780s when the Church started to deny access to its two sacraments – baptism and Holy Communion – to illegitimate children and their parents. Through a detailed exploration of baptismal petitions for illegitimate children and censure cases involving unmarried mothers, this article reveals the growing obsession with regulating the conduct of single women. It is suggested that the origins of this movement lie both in local Cape developments, viz. the socio-economic upheavals caused by the Revolutionary wars, and – perhaps primarily – in changing attitudes towards motherhood created by Enlightenment ideas and Pietistic religion. At the Cape this new ideology was disseminated by the DRC minister H.R. van Lier who used existing Reformed dogma about the sacraments to regulate the morals of unmarried mothers.

- by Gerald Groenewald
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- Women's History, Gender History, Religion and Sexuality, Single Mothers

The spread of Protestant Christianity to Indonesia and Sri Lanka in the early modern period involved large-scale translation projects and, from the beginning of the eighteenth century, the publication of metrical psalms in languages spoken by local communities: Portuguese, Malay, Tamil and Sinhala. Selected psalms from the Genevan Psalter, as well as complete versions, were translated and published in South and Southeast Asia on several occasions in the eighteenth century, representing the earliest printing of Western staff notation in Jakarta and Colombo. These psalters were issued in numerous editions, and some were prefaced with a short explanation of the musical scale. Christian communities in Indonesia and Sri Lanka appear to have used the psalters regularly in religious devotions and services. This article explores the processes involved in the translation, production and distribution of these psalters, considering musical and cultural aspects of their adoption into local communities.

- by David Irving
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- Southeast Asian Studies, Book of Psalms, Psalms studies, Dutch East India Company

The first translation of Confucius’s Analects into a European language was a Dutch book by Pieter van Hoorn. Printed in Batavia in 1675, it predated the better-known Latin translation, Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (1687). Whereas the introduction of Confucius in the West has often been regarded as a project of the Jesuit mission, an exploration of the Netherlandish situation points out that the ‘manufacturing’ of Confucianism was a variegated and multi-confessional affair. The process of transmitting, translating, publishing, explaining, and judging Confucius presented a challenge to Europeans from different backgrounds and allegiances, integrating not only Latin and vernacular scholarship but also Asian expertise.

- by Thijs Weststeijn and +1
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- Intellectual History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Philosophy

This is the catalogue of the artefacts excavated from the Avondster site between 1993 and 2004. It is not a normal find catalogue of an archaeological excavation, because the majority of the documented artefacts have once again been lost. The tsunami of December 26th, 2004 destroyed not only the building of the Maritime Archaeological Unit (MAU) in Galle, but also caused the loss of two thirds of the excavated artefacts of the Avondster stored within. The significant part of the single body of find documentation was also lost as a result of that tsunami.

- by Robert Parthesius
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- Maritime Archaeology, Maritime History, Indian Ocean History, Sri Lanka

Birkenholz, F. (2017). Merchant-Kings and Lords of the World: Diplomatic Gift-Exchange between the Dutch East India Company and the Safavid and Mughal Empires in the Seventeenth Century. In T. A. Sowerby, & J. Hennings (Eds.), Practices of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World c.1410-1800 (pp. 219-236). [12] (Routledge Research in Early Modern History). Routledge

- by Toby L Hui
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- Sovereignty, Dutch East India Company

- by Tristan Mostert
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- Military History, Global History, Dutch East India Company

Brochure of an exhibition of textiles and related arts organized by The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C., on view 7 November 1986 - 29 January 1987. Topics addressed: Meaning and Metaphor, Court and Commerce, Textiles and Trade, Textiles... more

- by Carol Bier
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- Cultural History, Textiles, Social and Cultural Anthropology, History of Textiles

This unpublished report for the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands details archival research done for partners in Australia to help discover possible locations of two VOC-shipwrecks. Archaeological research is being conducted for... more

The present paper explores the shifting roles and understandings of the Singapore Straits from the latter Middle Ages until the opening decades of the eighteenth century. In pursuing this task, I will develop a set of basic questions that historicize and problematize the roles, functions and understandings of the Straits across the centuries, and also tease out historical and historiographical paradigms shaping and underpinning the understanding of the region’s past. In pursuing this programme I will make use of a broad range of sources including chronicles and histories, letters and treaties, navigational instructions and travel literature, as well as (European) cartography of the 16th to 18th centuries. In order to gain deeper appreciation of the multi-faceted roles and understandings of the Singapore Straits across the longue durée, I not only adduce and evaluate materials of European colonial origin, but importantly also heed special attention to sources of Asian origin in general, and specifically to materials that have originally been written in Arabic, Malay, Chinese and have been made accessible to the wider reading public in various contemporary translations. The modes of enquiry and the insights brought to paper here differ both in terms of scope and objectives from my earlier findings expounded in The Singapore and Melaka Straits published in 2010.

- by Peter Borschberg
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- Business, History, Economic History, Diplomatic History

The VOC (also known as Dutch East India Company) was the most powerful European trading company in India for quite a while. On the other hand, the Maratha polity, founded by the charismatic Shivaji, was the only truly pan-Indian indigenous power in Post-Mughal India. The two powers interacted with each other extensively and their interactions as well as the Dutch records on Maratha History therefore require special attention, yet little or no attention has been given to Dutch-Maratha relations. In this brief presentation, a small survey of Dutch-Maratha relations under Shivaji (from 1660 till 1680) is presented, thus making a small advance in this important direction.

- by Nikhil Bellarykar
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- Dutch East India Company, Maratha History