scholarly journals Colonial Print Culture: Sundanese Book Publishing in the Dutch East Indies in the Early Twentieth Century

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Mikihiro Moriyama
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Book Publishing ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Nationalist Movement ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Modern School ◽  
Knowledge Culture ◽  
Regional Languages ◽  
Publishing Business

The indigenous book publishing business for Sundanese-speaking communities started in the early 20th century, when the nationalist movement was set in motion. The modern school system had continued to spread in colonial society from the mid–19th century. The more education spread, the more literate people there were among the indigenous population. The indigenous book publishing business responded to the demands of this newly-emerging readership. Book publishing finally turned into a business by the 1920s. It seems to have provided distinctive readings from those provided by Balai Poestaka. The indigenous publishers played a supplemental role in nurturing print culture in the colonial context. Both government and private indigenous publishers contributed to promote modern readership and a colonial print culture. The book publishing and print culture in regional languages like Sundanese were nurtured in the colonial period and grew to constitute a medium to decolonize knowledge and knowledge culture.

scholarly journals Borneo – trudna przeszłość, poplątane tożsamości. Indonezyjsko-malajska konfrontacja 1963–1966

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-296
Author(s):  
Andrzej Połosak
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Military Operation ◽  
East Indies ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Territorial Status ◽  
Commonwealth Of Nations

Borneo, the largest of the Sunda Islands, was already divided during the colonial period. Its southern part belonged to the Dutch East Indies. To the north, there were the territories of North Kalimantan, part of the British Federation of Malaya. The President of the Republic of Indonesia, Ahmed Sukarno, supported anti-colonial movements around the world. Moreover, in 1962, Indonesia launched a military operation that attached West Irian, a Dutch overseas territory in the eastern tip of New Guinea. This operation gained international support.When Great Britain revised its Far East policy in the late 1950s, London gave independence to the Federation of Malaya, known as Malaysia since that time. From then on, the country was part of the Commonwealth of Nations. President Sukarno, remembering the success of the 1962 operation, considered newly established Malaysia to be only a new incarnation of English colonial politics. In April 1963, Jakarta began invading northern Borneo to annex these lands to Indonesia. The invasion met with strong resistance from the Commonwealth of Nations. After three years of struggle, the territorial status quo from before the conflict was re-established. The invasion and its high costs shook President Sukarno’s position. As a result, he was overthrown by General Suharto and the previously pursued policy of supporting anti-colonialism ended, although Indonesia remained a member of the Non-Aligned Movement, one of whose spiritual fathers was Ahmed Sukarno.

scholarly journals Giving for Girls: Reconsidering Colonial Civilizing Missions in the Dutch East Indies through Charitable Girls’ Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten Kamphuis
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Gain Control ◽  
Educational Policies ◽  
Civilizing Mission ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Dutch East Indies ◽  
Domestic Lives ◽  
Colonial Government

Abstract This article compares two Protestant schools for elite indigenous girls in the Dutch East Indies. While both schools were financially supported by the colonial government, they emerged from Christian organizations and were partly dependent on voluntary gifts from the Netherlands and the colony. The article proposes to look at such philanthropic initiatives as integral parts of a larger colonial civilizing mission which was not limited to the colonial state. On the contrary, discourses about the implementation of “civilized” gender roles within indigenous families through girls’ education first emerged among philanthropists, and eventually influenced state-driven educational policies for girls. It is argued that philanthropical initiatives for girls’ education such as the two schools presented here are best understood as attempts to gain control over, and ultimately reform, the domestic lives of the indigenous population in the Dutch East Indies

A Dispute over Patrimonial Property in Huaquechula, Mexico: The Chimalhua Case, 1738–1740

Ethnohistory ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-287
Author(s):  
Avis Mysyk ◽  
Edgar de Ita Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Population Recovery ◽  
Legal Decisions ◽  
Archival Document ◽  
The Status ◽  
Legal Strategies

Abstract Throughout the colonial period, disputes over the inheritance of property were common among indigenous peoples, both nobles and commoners. From the outset, they became familiar with and adept at negotiating their interests from within the colonial legal system. Based on the corresponding archival document and map, this article explores how the Chimalhuas used this system to resolve an intrafamilial dispute over patrimonial property. The dispute was not one between equals but, because the Spanish legal system was flexible, its legal decisions arbitrary, both sides attempted to use late-colonial modes of argumentation, legal strategies, and status- and class-based rhetoric to their advantage. This article also considers how the wider context of indigenous population recovery and Spanish pressure on resources within which the dispute occurred had implications for two separate but related issues. First, the status of the Chimalhuas had declined and, second, the dispute was largely confined to the negotiation of individual interests.

The Development of the Nationalist Movement in the Netherlands East Indies; A Publication of Sources by R.C.Kwantes

Itinerario ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-52
Author(s):  
Pieter Drooglever
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Financial Policies ◽  
Constitutional Development ◽  
Nationalist Movement ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Netherlands East Indies ◽  
History Of

In 1975, the eighth volume appeared in the series of publications of the committee 1900–1942 (CBNI) (of the Dutch historical association) for the publication of sources on the history of the N.E.I. The earlier publications of this series, which is now nearing completion, were arranged around the following themes: government policy on education, the People's Council and constitutional development, the nationalist movement till 1917 and the economic and financial policies of the NEI government. It was the job of drs. R.C.Kwantes (like dr. Van der Wai and mr. Creutzberg, a former official of the NEI government) to collect Dutch archival sources on the nationalist movement since 1917. With his first book he has brought his subject up to the middle of 1923. Two more volumes will be needed to cover the period till 1942. One of them may be expected in the course of 1978.

Do you know where your book publishing business is?

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 14-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kosmo Kalliarekos ◽  
Tammy Battaglino ◽  
Dina Connor
Keyword(s):  
Book Publishing ◽  
Publishing Business

Architectures of Fear and Spaces of Hope in Banaras

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 34-53
Author(s):  
Bikramaditya K. Choudhary ◽  
Brahma Prakash
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Nationalist Movement ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Incumbent Party ◽  
19Th And 20Th Century ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The City

Identity of Banaras was once again back in the limelight with the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) Prime Ministerial candidate Mr. Narendra Modi choosing to represent the city. Known also as Kashi and Varanasi, Banaras indeed played a strategic role in representing the politics the incumbent party believed in. With the overwhelming majority to Modi, the city of Banaras is further idealized as an archetypal city of the Brahminical Hinduism with the spectacular images of temples and ghats that remain teeming with Pandas and devotees. This particular Hindu identity of the city has been constructed through the selective images over time from the colonial period onwards in the 19th century. Identity formation, whether of a community or a city, social or symbolic is spatially situated process and spatial centrality is important in understanding the identity of a city in general and Banaras in particular. We in this paper argue that how in case of Banaras some spaces were mobilized and centralized to create this hindutva identity. In this representational mobilization of identity, the city of Banaras represents a spectacular space removed from its own spatiality. Proclaimed space of Banaras seems not to be a product of social practices rather it is symbolic spaces generated through the trajectories of ideologies of certain groups. This process of formation of identity is not a radical departure, rather it as a culmination of re-emerging Hindu nationalist movement during 19th and 20th century. In this paper, we bring forth the celebration of Ravidas Jyanti as the performance of possibilities and we try to identity the spaces of hope amidst the overarching outcry. Thinking through the categories of space and performance and their interpolations in Banaras, this article attempts to reconfigure the identity of this city beyond the Hindu right-wing rhetoric and pretension.

scholarly journals INTERNATIONAL MARKETING DEVELOPING PUBLISHING BUSINESS / TARPTAUTINIS MARKETINGAS PLĖTOJANT LEIDYBOS VERSLĄ

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-188
Author(s):  
Eugenijus Chlivickas ◽  
Laura Leščinskaitė
Keyword(s):  
International Marketing ◽  
Book Publishing ◽  
Business Development ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
Publishing Houses ◽  
Publishing Business

Lithuanian integration in the financial Eurozone and Lithuanian publishing business development in the European Union and outside it, becomes an important problem requiring a solution. Promoting the dissemination of printed books and literacy in Lithuania and beyond, to properly introduce the achievements of Lithuania in foreign countries, it is important to ensure Lithuanian letter, educational and scientific book publishing development. The article examines the characteristics of the international marketing publishing, the world and Lithuanian state publishing houses on the basis of foreign and Lithuanian scientists theoretical insights about the instruments of international marketing opportunities, developing proposals for publishing business integration of new economic conditions. Lietuvai integruojantis į finansinę euro zoną, Lietuvos leidybos verslo plėtra Europos Sąjungoje bei už jos ribų tampa svarbia problema, kurią reikia spręsti. Skatinant spausdintų knygų sklaidą ir raštingumą Lietuvoje bei už jos ribų, siekiant tinkamai pristatyti Lietuvos pasiekimus užsienio šalyse, svarbu užtikrinti Lietuvos rašto, švietimo ir mokslo knygų leidybos plėtrą. Straipsnyje nagrinėjamos leidybos verslo ypatybės, pasaulio bei Lietuvos leidyklų būklė, remiantis užsienio ir Lietuvos mokslininkų teorinėmis įžvalgomis apie tarptautinio marketingo instrumentų panaudojimo galimybes, pateikti siūlymai dėl leidybos verslo plėtros naujomis ekonominės integracijos sąlygomis.

scholarly journals The Visual Economy of “Precious Books”

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-114
Author(s):  
Zeina Maasri
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Book Publishing ◽  
The Political ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Capitalist Economy ◽  
Art Object ◽  
The Aesthetic

Abstract Shedding light on the postcolonial Arabic book, this article expands the literary and art historical fields of inquiry by bringing into play the translocal design and visual economy of modern art books. It is focused on the short-lived Silsilat al-Nafa'is (Precious Books series, 1967–70), published in Beirut by Dar an-Nahar and edited by modernist poet Yusuf al-Khal (1917–87). The series engaged prominent Arab artists and foregrounded the aesthetic dimension of the printed Arabic book as a “precious” art object. Situated historically at the threshold of contemporary globalization, this publishing endeavor formed a node connecting transnational modernist art and literary circuits with book publishing and was thus paradigmatic of new forms of visuality of the Arabic book. This materiality was enabled by a network of changes in the visual arts, printing technologies, and the political economy of transnational Arabic publishing in late 1960s Beirut. Relations between these three fields are analyzed through a multifaceted lens, focusing on the book as at once a product of intellectual and artistic practice, a commodity in a capitalist economy of publishing, and a translocal artifact of visual and print culture.

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