Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-lj6df Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-09T06:00:17.419Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Asia and the West as Partners Before “Empire” and After

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Holden Furber
Get access

Extract

A large number of us who are here today in 1969 remember the early beginnings of our organization. I remember particularly a small gathering of one of our earlier incarnations in John Fairbank's livingroom discussing our problems, when we were so small that Wilma Fairbank could send out the postcard notices of meetings without any secretarial help. We are now old enough to have acquired traditions, one of which is the rotation of the presidency from China to South East Asia to Japan to South Asia and then round again. By a fortunate chance the turn of South Asia falls this year on the centenary of the birth of the greatest of South Asians of modern times. Another of our traditions is that the president should deliver an address on a topic close to his own special interest—in my case the history of modern India. I am, however, going to deviate somewhat from that practice this afternoon. In closing, I shall make some suggestions which I hope all of us will keep in mind in this new era of Asian history which is now upon us.

Type
Articles
Information
The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , August 1969 , pp. 711 - 721
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 Madras Record Office, Mayor's Court Proceedings 1718–1719, pp. 20, 32.

2 Portuguese Society in the Tropics (Madison, Wis., 1965) p. 58.Google Scholar

3 Records of Fort St. George, Letters to Fort St. George, XXV, 43, Nov. 18, 1740.

4 English Country Trade with the Philippines 1644–1765 (Manila 1966), p. 120.Google Scholar

5 Bombay Presidency in the Mid-Eighteenth Century (Bombay, 1965), pp. 54–61.Google Scholar

6 Rigsarkivet Copenhagen, Asiatisk Kompagni MSS. B 1335, folio 57, Dupleix to Governor Bonsack Jan. 16, 1745.

7 Rigsarkivet Copenhagen, Asiatisk Kompagni MSS B 1356, ff. 49–51, especially letter of Orme to Governor Krog Sept. 13, 1755.

8 Rigsarkivet Copenhagen, Asiatisk Kompagni MSS B 1414, f. 58, Gov. Krog to Thurkan Agarwal, Jan. 10, 1756.

9 Prakash, Om, “The Dutch East India Company and the Economy of Bengal, 1650–1717” (unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Delhi, 1966) p. 474.Google Scholar

10 Ibid., pp. 472, 501.

11 Records of Fort St. George, Letters to Fort St. George, XXVIII, 49. Richard Bourchier to Nicolas Morse Apr. 27, 1744.

12 Rigsarkivet, Copenhagen, Asiatisk Kompagni MSS 1359, folio 89, Keir, Reed, and Cator to Governor Abbestic at Tranquebar Feb. 16, 1768.

13 On this subject, see especially H. Terpstra, De Nederlanders in Voor-lndië (Amsterdam, 1947). chapter VI.

14 Boxer, C. R. “The Colour Question in the Portuguese Empire 1415–1825” Proceedings of the British Academy, XLVII, 113–38.Google Scholar

15 Bombay Presidency in the Mid-Eighteenth Century (Bombay: 1965), pp. 67–69.Google Scholar