Dick Kooiman
Biographic Data
| ID | 615724 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dick Kooiman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dick |
| FAMILY NAME | Kooiman |
| SIGNATURE | KOOIMAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Linking Destinies
Linking destinies
This collection of essays demonstrate how flows of trade, cities, and kinship relations hang together, and how the study of one topic opens new vistas on the other two, revealing causal links that otherwise would have remained hidden
The guns of Travancore or how much powder may a Maharaja blaze away
The main focus of this article is the chequered history of Travancore state's gun salutes. After the somewhat unexpected award of a prestigious dynastic salute in 1866, all later efforts to rise in the hierarchy of guns remained in vain. What were the grounds on which gun salutes were claimed by the rulers of Travancore, and granted or withheld by the British-Indian government? A related question is the paucity of documentary evidence that both p…
Invention of Tradition in Travancore
Up until the British departure from India, in 1947, hundreds of Indian princely states succeeded in maintaining a semi-autonomous existence beneath the wide umbrella of British paramount power. These states, which were scattered over the whole subcontinent, ranged from large and imposing to tiny and insignificant, and were dominated by Hindu, Muslim and Sikh ruling elites
Meeting at the threshold, at the edge of the carpet or somewhere in between? Questions of ceremonial in princely India
In the interaction between Indian princes and British political officers, ceremonial played a prominent part, especially in forms of salutation and seating arrangements. Hence, the question of a British Resident, quoted in the title of this article, on the proper ceremonial at a Maharaja's visit. The Political Departmentfelt convinced that ceremonial, 'a bit of bunting' in Lord Lytton's patronising words, met a deeply felt oriental need for pomp …
The strength of numbers
importance of numbers and figures has crept into our study of history.I am not referring to the so-called quantitative history which only feels free to make statements about the past if sufficiently buttressed with countable facts and data.What I mean is that historians have begun to realise that modern government methods of measuring and counting have affected the formation of new subjective identities.Bernard Cohn 1 has already drawn attention …
Separate Electorates
Missionary Archives and Historical-Anthropological Research
In the summer of 1992 the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London hosted a workshop that deserves the interest of the readers of Itinerario . It was a workshop on missionary archives exclusively meant to explore the rich potential of these missionary sources for social science research. The initiative for this two-day study-conference was taken by the historian David Arnold and the archivist Rosemary Seton, both …
Plantations in Southern Asia
(1992). Plantations in Southern Asia: Indigenous plants and foreign implantations. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 53-79
Conversion from Slavery to Plantation Labour
Mass Movement, Famine and Epidemic A Study in Interrelationship
Meenakshipuram is a small, dusty village in Tamilnadu's Tinnevelly (Tirunelveli) district, very close to the south Kerala border. In 1981 this inconspicuous place, and several other villages in its immediate vicinity, made big headlines in the Indian daily papers when thousands of harijans or ex-untouchables decided to leave Hinduism and to embrace Islam. This spectacular case of mass conversion created a terrible shock among caste Hindus and thr…
Conversion and Social Equality in India
Social Dimensions of Religious Conversion
Jobbers and Unions in Bombay Textile Industry
Untouchability in India through the Missionary's Eye
About one-seventh of the world population lives in South Asia and about one-seventh of this concentrated human mass belongs to the so-called harijans or untouchables. Economically exploited and socially despised, this minority — which actually contains well over 85 million people — has been relegated to the lower fringes of Hindu society. With occupations like sweeping, tanning, midwifery etc. permanently assigned to them, their degradation is fu…
Jobbers and the Emergence of Trade Unions in Bombay City
For the city of Bombay the establishment of British rule over Maharashtra (1818) inaugurated a period of extensive growth in trade, industry and banking. In search of wealth and power merchant communities and trading castes, mainly from the Northern province of Gujarat, settled in Bombay to exploit the economic opportunities that arose under the British raj. In the mid nineteenth century Indian entrepreneurs started a textile industry, which prov…
Mass Movement, Famine and Epidemic A Study in Interrelationship
Meenakshipuram is a small, dusty village in Tamilnadu's Tinnevelly (Tirunelveli) district, very close to the south Kerala border. In 1981 this inconspicuous place, and several other villages in its immediate vicinity, made big headlines in the Indian daily papers when thousands of harijans or ex-untouchables decided to leave Hinduism and to embrace Islam. This spectacular case of mass conversion created a terrible shock among caste Hindus and thr…
Conversion from Slavery to Plantation Labour
Jobbers and the Emergence of Trade Unions in Bombay City
For the city of Bombay the establishment of British rule over Maharashtra (1818) inaugurated a period of extensive growth in trade, industry and banking. In search of wealth and power merchant communities and trading castes, mainly from the Northern province of Gujarat, settled in Bombay to exploit the economic opportunities that arose under the British raj. In the mid nineteenth century Indian entrepreneurs started a textile industry, which prov…
Meeting at the threshold, at the edge of the carpet or somewhere in between? Questions of ceremonial in princely India
In the interaction between Indian princes and British political officers, ceremonial played a prominent part, especially in forms of salutation and seating arrangements. Hence, the question of a British Resident, quoted in the title of this article, on the proper ceremonial at a Maharaja's visit. The Political Departmentfelt convinced that ceremonial, 'a bit of bunting' in Lord Lytton's patronising words, met a deeply felt oriental need for pomp …
Invention of Tradition in Travancore
Up until the British departure from India, in 1947, hundreds of Indian princely states succeeded in maintaining a semi-autonomous existence beneath the wide umbrella of British paramount power. These states, which were scattered over the whole subcontinent, ranged from large and imposing to tiny and insignificant, and were dominated by Hindu, Muslim and Sikh ruling elites
Plantations in Southern Asia
(1992). Plantations in Southern Asia: Indigenous plants and foreign implantations. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 53-79
Jobbers and the Emergence of Trade Unions in Bombay City
For the city of Bombay the establishment of British rule over Maharashtra (1818) inaugurated a period of extensive growth in trade, industry and banking. In search of wealth and power merchant communities and trading castes, mainly from the Northern province of Gujarat, settled in Bombay to exploit the economic opportunities that arose under the British raj. In the mid nineteenth century Indian entrepreneurs started a textile industry, which prov…
Untouchability in India through the Missionary's Eye
About one-seventh of the world population lives in South Asia and about one-seventh of this concentrated human mass belongs to the so-called harijans or untouchables. Economically exploited and socially despised, this minority — which actually contains well over 85 million people — has been relegated to the lower fringes of Hindu society. With occupations like sweeping, tanning, midwifery etc. permanently assigned to them, their degradation is fu…
Social Dimensions of Religious Conversion
Jobbers and Unions in Bombay Textile Industry
Conversion from Slavery to Plantation Labour
Mass Movement, Famine and Epidemic A Study in Interrelationship
Meenakshipuram is a small, dusty village in Tamilnadu's Tinnevelly (Tirunelveli) district, very close to the south Kerala border. In 1981 this inconspicuous place, and several other villages in its immediate vicinity, made big headlines in the Indian daily papers when thousands of harijans or ex-untouchables decided to leave Hinduism and to embrace Islam. This spectacular case of mass conversion created a terrible shock among caste Hindus and thr…
Conversion and Social Equality in India
Missionary Archives and Historical-Anthropological Research
In the summer of 1992 the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London hosted a workshop that deserves the interest of the readers of Itinerario . It was a workshop on missionary archives exclusively meant to explore the rich potential of these missionary sources for social science research. The initiative for this two-day study-conference was taken by the historian David Arnold and the archivist Rosemary Seton, both …
Plantations in Southern Asia
(1992). Plantations in Southern Asia: Indigenous plants and foreign implantations. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 53-79
Separate Electorates
The strength of numbers
importance of numbers and figures has crept into our study of history.I am not referring to the so-called quantitative history which only feels free to make statements about the past if sufficiently buttressed with countable facts and data.What I mean is that historians have begun to realise that modern government methods of measuring and counting have affected the formation of new subjective identities.Bernard Cohn 1 has already drawn attention …
Meeting at the threshold, at the edge of the carpet or somewhere in between? Questions of ceremonial in princely India
In the interaction between Indian princes and British political officers, ceremonial played a prominent part, especially in forms of salutation and seating arrangements. Hence, the question of a British Resident, quoted in the title of this article, on the proper ceremonial at a Maharaja's visit. The Political Departmentfelt convinced that ceremonial, 'a bit of bunting' in Lord Lytton's patronising words, met a deeply felt oriental need for pomp …
Invention of Tradition in Travancore
Up until the British departure from India, in 1947, hundreds of Indian princely states succeeded in maintaining a semi-autonomous existence beneath the wide umbrella of British paramount power. These states, which were scattered over the whole subcontinent, ranged from large and imposing to tiny and insignificant, and were dominated by Hindu, Muslim and Sikh ruling elites
The guns of Travancore or how much powder may a Maharaja blaze away
The main focus of this article is the chequered history of Travancore state's gun salutes. After the somewhat unexpected award of a prestigious dynastic salute in 1866, all later efforts to rise in the hierarchy of guns remained in vain. What were the grounds on which gun salutes were claimed by the rulers of Travancore, and granted or withheld by the British-Indian government? A related question is the paucity of documentary evidence that both p…
Linking Destinies
Linking destinies
This collection of essays demonstrate how flows of trade, cities, and kinship relations hang together, and how the study of one topic opens new vistas on the other two, revealing causal links that otherwise would have remained hidden
History (12 works) · Geography (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · History (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (4 works)