Registering and Regulating Family Life: The School Thombos in Dutch Sri Lanka
Abstract In eighteenth-century, colonial Sri Lanka, the Dutch church kept extensive registers of the local population. These “school thombos” contain individual registration of baptism, marriage, school attendance and death. This article argues that the school thombos reveal moral control over family life by the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch Reformed Church, while offering locals a legal and religious identity to employ in negotiating the Dutch colonial bureaucracy. These rarely studied registers shed new light on Sri Lankan family history and the practices of Dutch colonialism. What... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2023 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Law and History Review ; volume 41, issue 3, page 501-521 ; ISSN 0738-2480 1939-9022 |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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Schlagwörter: | Law / History |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0738248022000499 |