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The conquest of Java, now part of Indonesia, is one of the least known episodes of British imperialism. But this short interregnum influenced the governance of the Indian Raj and proved a significant stepping stone in the career of the founder of Singapore, says Tim Hannigan. |
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 Joost Schouten was one of the ablest servants of the 17th-century Dutch East India Company, but he came a serious cropper when his fellow countrymen discovered his ‘crimes against nature’, as Peter Murrell explains. Published in History Today, Volume: 63 Issue: 6, 2013
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Administrator, Orientalist, patron of science and founder of Singapore, Raffles was an enlightened Governor of Java during the British occupation, 1811-1816. By Dorothy Woodman. |
 The conquest of Java, now part of Indonesia, is one of the least known episodes of British imperialism. But this short interregnum influenced the governance of the Indian Raj and proved a significant stepping stone in the career of the founder of Singapore, says Tim Hannigan. |
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Merle Ricklefs seeks clues for the future of the troubled archipelago nation in its distant past. |
 Dutch sovereignty was transferred to the United States of Indonesia on November 2nd, 1949. |
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Revolutions and changes of dynasty seem to have happened with the regularity of clockwork on the island of Java. M.C. Ricklefs investigates. |
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Paul Doolan looks at the continuing controversy over Dutch 'police operations' post-1945 in Indonesia. |
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For the past 600 years the island of Java has been the scene for the encounter of the two major cultural and religious traditions of the world. |
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