Two Colonial Empires Comparative Essays on the History of India and

by C. A. Bayly and D. H. A. Kolff The papers published in this volume were originally presented at two meetings of the Cambridg~-Leiden group for the comparative study of colonial India and Indonesia he1d in June 1979 and September 1982. These meetings we

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COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN OVERSEAS HISTORY

general editor H.L. WESSELING

For a complete list of volumes in this series see final page of the volume.

TWO COLONIAL EMPIRES edited by

C.A. BAYLY and D.H.A. KOLFF Comparative essays on the history of India and Indonesia in the nineteenth century, by

C.A. BAYLY, SUSAN BAYLY, C. FASSEUR, J .C. HEESTERMAN, W.R. HUGENHOLTZ, D.H.A. KOLFF, DHARMA KUMAR, M. KUITENBROUWER and FRANCIS ROBINSON

1986

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title:

Two colonial empires. (Comparative studies in overseas Includes index. 1. Indonesia--History--Java War, 2. 1ndia--History--Sepoy Rebellion, I. Bayly, C. A. (Christopher Alan) D. H. A., 1938III. Series. DS643.T88 1986 959.8'022

ISBN-13:978-94-010-8440-6

history ; v. 6) 1825-1830. 1857-1858. II. Kolff, 85-29687

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001: 10.1 007/978-94-009-4366-7

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© 1986 by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1986 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, P.O. Box 163, 3300 AD Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

CONTENTS Introduction by C.A. Bayly and D.H.A. Kolff Ulama, Sufis and ·Colonial Rule in North India and Indonesia by F. Robinson

9

Islam in Southern India: 'Purist' or 'Syncretic'? by S. Bayly

35

Aristocracies under Colonial Rule: North India and Java by M. Kuitenbrouwer

75

Administrative Tradition and the Dilemma of Colonial Rule: An Example of the Early 1830s by D.H.A. Kolff

95

Two Colonial Revolts: The Java War, 1825-30, and the Indian 'Mutiny' of 1857-59 by C.A. Bayly

III

The Cultivation System and its Impact on the Dutch Colonial Economy and the Indigenous Society in Nineteenth-Century Java by C. Fasseur

137

Famine and Food Supply in Java 1830-1914 by W.R. Hugenholtz

155

State and Adat by J .C. Heesterman

189

The Taxation of Agriculture in British India and Dutch Indonesia ~D . ~mu

Index

200 229

INTRODUCTION

by C.A. Bayly and D.H.A. Kolff

The papers published in this volume were originally presented at two meetings of the Cambridg~-Leiden group for the comparative study of colonial India and Indonesia he1d in June 1979 and September 1982. These meetings were jointly sponsored by the Centre for the History of European Expansion at Leiden and the