Hagerdal Hans (ed.) Responding to the West: Essays on Colonial Domination and Asian Agency

Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2009. — 185 p.List of Figures and Tables
Introduction: New Paths of Colonial History
Hans Hägerdal
The Future of the Past, the Past of the Future: History in Southeast Asia
Vincent Houben
European Adventurers and Changes in the Indian Military System
Ram Krishna Tandon
The Exile of the Liurai: A Historiographical Case Study from Timor
Hans Hägerdal
Africans in Asia: The Discourse of ‘Negritos’ in Early Nineteenth century Southeast Asia
Sandra Khor Manickam
Women’s Education and Empowerment in Colonial Bengal 87
Rachana Chakraborty
Her Old Ayah: The Transcolonial Significance of the Indian Domestic Worker in India and Australia
Victoria Haskins
The Chinese, the Indians and the French Exchange Control during the French Indochinese War or How to Endure, Fight and Mock the Colonial Power (1945-1954)
Daniel Leplat
Living the Colonial Lifestyle: Australian Women and Domestic Labour in Occupied Japan 1945-1952
Christine de Matos
Decolonisation and the Origin of Military Business in Indonesia
Bambang Purwanto