Data-Gathering in Colonial Southeast Asia 1800-1900 : : Framing the Other / / Farish A. Noor.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Noor, Farish A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (266 p.)

Empire-building did not only involve the use of excessive violence against native communities, but also required the gathering of data about the native Other. This is a book about books, which looks at the writings of Western colonial administrators, company-men and map-makers who wrote about Southeast Asia in the 19th century. In the course of their information-gathering they had also framed the people of Southeast Asia in a manner that gave rise to Orientalist racial stereotypes that would be used again and again. This work revisits the era of colonial data-collecting to demonstrate the workings of the imperial echo chamber, and how in the discourse of 19th century colonial-capitalism data was effectively weaponized to serve the interests of Empire.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- A Note on Spelling -- Introduction -- 1. Caught in the Eye of Empire -- 2. Deadly Testimonies -- 3. Fairy Tales and Nightmares -- 4. The Needle of Empire -- 5. The Panopticon in the Indies -- Appendix A. Proclamation of Lord Minto, Governor-General of British India, at Molenvliet, Java, 11 September 1811 -- Appendix B .Proclamation of Stamford Raffles, Lieutenant-General of Java, At Batavia, Java, 15 October 1813 -- Appendix C. The Treaty of Peace Concluded at Yandabo -- Appendix D. The Treaty of Friendship and Commerce between Her Majesty and the Sultan of Borneo (Brunei). Signed, in the English and Malay Languages, 27 May 1847 -- Appendix E. The Racial Census employed in British Malaya from 1871 to 1931 -- Timeline of Events and Developments in Southeast Asia 1800-1900 -- Bibliography -- Index