Author: HERWERDEN, J.D. VAN,
Title: Indië gelijk het geworden is, en Nederland, gelijk het dreigt te worden. Orig. edn.
Description: 's-Gravenhage, Belinfante, 1859. sm.8°. Recent clothbacked orig. printed wraps. 86pp. Footnotes, publ. list printed on lower outer wrap. Author's retord to an article previously published in Bataviaasch Dagblad, on the Sepoy mutiny of 1857 in british India, in which is stated that dutch colonial indonesia is merely a conquered province, good for a credit-balance and that consequently the colony has neither a energetic administration nor a well-equipped army. Author states that the article is grossely exaggerated but regocnizes however the need to further [agricultural] development in order to raise the economic importance of the colonly. Uncut copy. Good. Rare. (somewh. dog-eared).

Keywords: sepoy mutiny credit balance batig slot economy development agriculture trade brochure colonialism indonesia southeast asia 19thc.