The Dutch East India Company and Mysore

Only very few Dutch historians have been working in the field of the activities of the Dutch East India Company in India, and their main interest was of ten directed to the period in the 17th century during which Dutch settlements were founded in different parts of the subcontinent.Detailed studies by Dutch authors on the development of these settlements during the 18th century are lacking almost completely.As far as Malabar is concerned, the works of the English authors Day and Logan, published during the second half of the last century, have contributed to a wider knowledge of the Dutch in the later period.In more recent years Indian scholars have consulted Dutch documents either for the study of Dutch activities in Malabar (e.g.Panikkar and Alexander), or within the context of Indian history in the 18th century (Hayavadana Rao, Sinha and Khan).But the work of none of these writers seems to Die entirely satisfactory, either because unfamiliarity with the Dutch language has resuited in errors, or, and more important, hecause these authors have consulted only a fraction of the Dutch sources available.They have restrÎcted themselves to comparatively few letters or some of the volumes of Dutch records published at Madras in the beginning of this century.The greater part of these published records are Memoirs written by the heads of the administration at the time of their departure in order to give their successors some idea of their duties.They are of value, and sometimes even indispensabie, but their importance should not be overestimated in view of the abundant mass of other contemporary material.Another point in connection with the available sources is that although Malabar ranks as the most important area of contact between the Dutch and Mysore, there were others as weIl, Coromande1 and, indirectly, Ceylon and Batavia, which should not he neglected.Several episodes could not have been dealt with in this study if I had depended only on the sources which are concerned with Malabar.The chief material which I have used consists of the manuscript records kept in the General State Archives at the Hague.These contain letters, proceedings, resolutions and other papers, which were regularly sent from the different settlements to Batavia, to Holland, and to one

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