Table of Contents

Ulama, Sufis and Colonial Rule in North India and Indonesia.- Islam in Southern India: ‘Purist’ or ‘Syncretic’?.- Aristocracies under Colonial Rule: North India and Java.- Administrative Tradition and the Dilemma of Colonial Rule: An Example of the Early 1830s.- Two Colonial Revolts: The Java War, 1825–30, and the Indian ‘Mutiny’ of 1857–59.- The Cultivation System and its Impact on the Dutch Colonial Economy and the Indigenous Society in Nineteenth-Century Java.- Famine and Food Supply in Java 1830–1914.- State and Adat.- The Taxation of Agriculture in British India and Dutch Indonesia.