Dutch sources on South Asia, c. 1600-1825, Vol.6: between Colombo and the Cape; letters in Tamil, Dutch and Sinhala, sent to Nicolaas Ondaatje from Ceylon, exile at the Cape of...

Tieken, Herman

...good hope (1728-1737). These letters give an intimate picture of an early eighteenth-century elite Chettiyar community in Ceylon employed by the Dutch East India Company. By contrast, at the Cape Nicolaas Ondaatje found himself in the company of the Free Blacks at the very bottom of the social ladder.

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