2018
DOI: 10.3917/adh.135.0051
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Contested conjugality? Sinhalese marriage practices in eighteenth-century Dutch colonial Sri Lanka

Abstract: Le Sri Lanka, sous contrôle hollandais au xviii e siècle, nous offre la possibilité d’étudier l’influence du contrôle administratif sur le quotidien de la vie familiale en contexte colonial. Cet article concentre son attention sur les modalités d’enregistrement par les documents administratifs néerlandais des pratiques matrimoniales cinghalaises. Nous savons, grâce à différentes sources, que ces dernières étaient jugées tout à fait indécentes par les calvinistes hollandais, car elles impliquaient souvent de la… Show more

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“…The company tried to regain its control and share of the spoils by inspecting all ownership titles to revert illegally acquired property to company ownership. They tried to limit the sale of inherited service land, because purchased land potentially lost the labour services traditionally attached to them, even though it was stipulated that the service or taxes attached to the plot should also be transferred (Kotelawele, ; Bulten et al ., , p. 63). All land users and their families were recorded, as well as all their lands and gardens with an indication of how they had come into the family's possession.…”
Section: The Thombo Registrationmentioning
confidence: 95%
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“…The company tried to regain its control and share of the spoils by inspecting all ownership titles to revert illegally acquired property to company ownership. They tried to limit the sale of inherited service land, because purchased land potentially lost the labour services traditionally attached to them, even though it was stipulated that the service or taxes attached to the plot should also be transferred (Kotelawele, ; Bulten et al ., , p. 63). All land users and their families were recorded, as well as all their lands and gardens with an indication of how they had come into the family's possession.…”
Section: The Thombo Registrationmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…Who was included in the thombos? The answer is: in principle, everyone, as the commissioners who were sent to the villages to compile the thombos were instructed in 1745 that ‘no one, of whatever caste, status or sex they may be, should be omitted’ (cited in Bulten et al ., , p. 63). Lands and the family groups occupying them were either recorded in the same volumes (as in Galle province) or in separate ‘land’ and ‘head’ thombos (in Colombo province).…”
Section: The Thombo Registrationmentioning
confidence: 95%
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