Belanda Hitam: the Indo-African Communities on Java

Kessel, Ineke van

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“…Ancient and early historical introductions are consistent with trade connections between Sudan and Ethiopia in northeast Africa and western India. The expansion of Swahili–Arab trade and cultural networks around the western Indian Ocean between the tenth and seventeenth centuries matches with evidence of MDES and SCEA sources in the Indian clusters [ 77 ]. The close position of MDES and CI baobab clusters in the population-level phylogeny may reflect ancestry of the CI populations in the Sudanian–Sahelian transition zone.…”

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“…The history of trade between West Africa and other parts of the Indian Ocean also extends over several millennia through a combination of land and oceanic routes and networks across the Sahel to ports on the Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea [ 76 ]. From the sixteenth century onwards, European colonial networks linked the Atlantic and Indian Oceans via the Cape of Good Hope [ 72 , 76 , 77 ].…”

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The history of introduction of the African baobab (Adansonia digitata, Malvaceae: Bombacoideae) in the Indian subcontinent

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To investigate the pathways of introduction of the African baobab, Adansonia digitata, to the Indian subcontinent, we examined 10 microsatellite loci in individuals from Africa, India, the Mascarenes and Malaysia, and matched this with historical evidence of human interactions between source and destination regions. Genetic analysis showed broad congruence of African clusters with biogeographic regions except along the Zambezi (Mozambique) and Kilwa (Tanzania), where populations included a mixture of individuals assigned to at least two different clusters. Individuals from West Africa, the Mascarenes, southeast India and Malaysia shared a cluster. Baobabs from western and central India clustered separately from Africa. Genetic diversity was lower in populations from the Indian subcontinent than in African populations, but the former contained private alleles. Phylogenetic analysis showed Indian populations were closest to those from the Mombasa-Dar es Salaam coast. The genetic results provide evidence of multiple introductions of African baobabs to the Indian subcontinent over a longer time period than previously assumed. Individuals belonging to different genetic clusters in Zambezi and Kilwa may reflect the history of trafficking captives from inland areas to supply the slave trade between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. Baobabs in the Mascarenes, southeast India and Malaysia indicate introduction from West Africa through eighteenth and nineteenth century European colonial networks.

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The history of introduction of the African baobab (Adansonia digitata, Malvaceae: Bombacoideae) in the Indian subcontinent

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“…Moreover, records may be in languages not read by European scholars, while what is written about them frequently does not enter the Euro-American library system. However, a range of publications has begun to appear, focusing on historical topics (Harris 1971;Rashidi and Van Sertima 1987;Basu 1993Basu , 2008aBaptiste 1998;Segal 2001;Collins 2006;Mohamed 2006;Kessel 2007;Obeng 2007;Hawley 2008). Archaeology is almost completely unexplored to date.…”

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Using Diverse Sources of Evidence for Reconstructing the Past History of Musical Exchanges in the Indian Ocean

Blench

2014

Afr Archaeol Rev

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Although the Indian Ocean has long been recognised as a fertile zone for cultural exchange, reflecting both trade routes and colonisation, it is only now coming into prominence in terms of its significance for the past history of the continents around its rim. It is now accepted that economic plants, animals, diseases, trade goods, languages, religion and cultural elements all moved around and across the Indian Ocean, often transforming the societies and environments into which they were introduced. The paper explores one specific aspect of cultural exchange, music and musical practice in the Indian Ocean. Case studies are used to assess the value and significance of different categories of evidence for the reconstruction of musical history and the resultant chronostratigraphy. These include the history of two types of zither which occur on both sides of the Indian Ocean and which attest to the significance of geographical distributions of material culture. A related issue is the vexed question of the similarities of the xylophone in Southeast Asia and Africa and the role of morphology in resolving the historical direction of transfer. Slavery and the African diaspora in the Indian Ocean have only recently been the subject of in-depth scholarly examination, and the paper summarises current literature and begins the process of categorising the exchange of musical subcultures. This throws into focus an important aspect of maritime transfers in the Indian Ocean: the low profile of some of the great trading nations, such as the Sassanians and the Chinese, in terms of cultural influence, despite their importance in overall trade. The paper suggests that disease and a focus on trade to the exclusion of other activities may account for this disparity.Résumé Néanmoins que l'Océane Indien a été longtemps reconnues comme zone fertile pour les échanges culturelles, réfléchissant les routes du commerce et colonisation, ce n'est que maintenant qu'il commence a devenir plus connu pour son signifiance pour l'histoire des continents autour de sa bassin. C'est reçu que les plantes utiles, les animaux, les maladies, les religions et des éléments culturaux ont étés transferts autour et au travers l'Océan Indien, souvent transformant les sociétés et environnements dans Afr Archaeol Rev (2014) 31:675-703

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Beyond race: constructions of ‘Europeanness’ in late-colonial legal practice in the Dutch East Indies

Luttikhuis

2013

European Review of History: Revue europeenne d'histoire

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Belanda Hitam: the Indo-African Communities on Java

Cited by 4 publications

References 1 publication

The history of introduction of the African baobab (Adansonia digitata, Malvaceae: Bombacoideae) in the Indian subcontinent

The history of introduction of the African baobab (Adansonia digitata, Malvaceae: Bombacoideae) in the Indian subcontinent

Using Diverse Sources of Evidence for Reconstructing the Past History of Musical Exchanges in the Indian Ocean

Beyond race: constructions of ‘Europeanness’ in late-colonial legal practice in the Dutch East Indies

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