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Lives, Land, and Labour: A Social History of Eighteenth-Century Sri Lanka / Luc Bulten.
Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2026 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bulten, Luc, author.
- Series:
- Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books online, Collection 2026
- European Expansion and Indigenous Response ; 51.
- European Expansion and Indigenous Response ; 51
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asian Studies.
- History.
- South Asia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The "Thombos" are a rather unique collection of eighteenth-century land and population registers detailing the lives lived, lands held, and labour provided by tens of thousands of people inhabiting the coastal regions of Sri Lanka that were colonised by the Dutch East India Company. Turning this archive inside out by highlighting both the indigenous and colonial roots of this administrative system, Luc Bulten presents a gateway into everyday social realities surrounding caste, conjugality, (forced) work, and land tenure. In doing so, he demonstrates how both European expansionism and local agency reciprocally affected the ways such social realities were shaped.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-75437-7
- 9789004754379
- OCLC:
- 1574807548
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004754379 DOI
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