Property, land and territory in the making of overseas empires

Serrão, José Vicente

doi:10.15847/cehc.prlteoe.945x00i

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“…41Serrão, “Portuguese Land Policies,” 183–96. Also see Mottau, “Documents on Ceylon History”; Paranavitana, Land for Money .…”

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Classifications at Work: Social Categories and Dutch Bureaucracy in Colonial Sri Lanka

Lyna¹,

Bulten²

2021

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Feeding into current debates on ethnic identities in colonial South Asia, this article questions to what extent Dutch institutions articulated and impacted social categories of people living in coastal Sri Lanka during the eighteenth century. A thorough analysis of three spheres of Dutch bureaucracy (reporting, registering, and litigating) makes it clear that there was no uniform ideology that steered categorisation practices top-down throughout the studied colonial institutions. Rather, the rationale of the organisation as such affected the way people were classified, depending to a large extent on what level of bureaucracy individuals were dealing with, and what the possible negotiation strategies were for the people recorded. Future research should perhaps not ask “when” certain ethnicities were “made up,” but strive to understand the process in which they were created, the institutional contexts in which they were recorded, and how changing bureaucratic practices not only articulated, but also transformed, social categories in the long run.

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“…41Serrão, “Portuguese Land Policies,” 183–96. Also see Mottau, “Documents on Ceylon History”; Paranavitana, Land for Money .…”

Section: Notesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Classifications at Work: Social Categories and Dutch Bureaucracy in Colonial Sri Lanka

Lyna¹,

Bulten²

2021

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Senhores de engenho e lavradoresde cana-de-açúcarda capitania de Pernambuco:Conflitos e direitos de propriedade,América portuguesa, século XVIII

Morais

2021

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In the Captaincy of Pernambuco, in Portuguese America, sugar cane mill lords andsugar cane farmers managed throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuriesto secure successive extensions of a privilege guaranteeing that their their prop-erty would not be confiscated as payment for debt. To understand how this privilegehelped preserve the patrimony of the local nobility in the sugar-based economy of Per-nambuco, the origins of this privilege and debates surrounding it were analyzed. Re-search for this work involved accessing diverse historical sources, mainly the OverseasHistorical Archive, the Historical Documents collection of the National Library of Riode Janeiro and the Torre do Tombo National Archive in Lisbon

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Property, land and territory in the making of overseas empires

Cited by 2 publications

References 14 publications

Classifications at Work: Social Categories and Dutch Bureaucracy in Colonial Sri Lanka

Classifications at Work: Social Categories and Dutch Bureaucracy in Colonial Sri Lanka

Senhores de engenho e lavradoresde cana-de-açúcarda capitania de Pernambuco:Conflitos e direitos de propriedade,América portuguesa, século XVIII

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