This database contains archival material on the formulation and execution of religious policies in the Netherlands Indies from 1814 to 1942. It was created by Gerrit Knaap and covers policies pertaining to Islam, Christianity, and other religions at central, regional, and local administrative levels.
Use Cases
- Analyze the evolution of colonial religious policy formulation over the 128-year time range.
- Study the execution of policies for specific religions like Islam and Christianity across different administrative levels.
- Trace archival material concerning the strategy for dealing with multiple religions in the colonial context.
Strengths
- Covers a long and significant historical time range of 128 years (1814-1942).
- Focuses on a specific and well-defined subject: religious policies in the Netherlands Indies.
- Archival material is categorized by administrative level (central, regional, local).
Limitations
- The specific data structure, including row count, column count, and file formats, is unknown.
- The dataset consists of archival material, which may require historical expertise for interpretation and analysis.
- Data is temporally bounded, ending in 1942, and does not cover post-colonial developments.
Provenance
- Source
- DataverseNL Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Compilation of archival material from colonial records.
- Time Range
- 1814 to 1942
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Netherlands Indies (historical Indonesia)