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Dutch Sri Lankans: Gustaaf Willem Van Imhoff, Michael Vandort, Quint Ondaatje, George Keyt, Maureen Hingert, Jean Arasanayagam, Pieter Keuneman

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Description:Chapters: Gustaaf Willem Van Imhoff, Michael Vandort, Quint Ondaatje, George Keyt, Maureen Hingert, Jean Arasanayagam, Pieter Keuneman. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Gustaaf Willem, Baron van Imhoff (August 8, 1705 LeerNovember 1, 1750) was the governor of Ceylon and then the Dutch East Indies for the Dutch East India Company (VOC-Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie). Van Imhoff was born into an East Frisian aristocratic family. His father, Wilhelm Heinrich Freiherr von Imhoff, came from the town of Leer in northwestern Germany, a few kilometers from the Dutch border. In 1725, Van Imhoff entered into the service of the Dutch East India Company in Batavia (modern-day Jakarta), then colonial capital of the Dutch East Indies. Van Imhoff was promoted several times within the company before being appointed colonial governor in Ceylon (Modern-day Sri Lanka) on July 23, 1736. Van Imhoff's tenure as governor of Ceylon put an end to the chaos that had pervaded the previous administration. He established constructive relations with the king of Kandy, Vira Narendra Sinha. King Narendra was married to a Tamil princess of Madurai (Tamil Nadu, India), and their child, Sri Vijaya Rajasinha who succeeded him after Narendra's death on May 24, 1739, was seen to be more Tamil than Sinhalese (the majority ethnic group in Ceylon). Imhoff was concerned about this succession because closer contact between the Tamils of Ceylon, under Sri Vijaya Rajasinha, and the Tamils of south India might endanger the Dutch East India Company's commercial monopoly. In his letters, Van Imhoff expressed his surprise that the Sinhalese people had accepted such a king, considering their haughty attitude towards the Tamils of India. However, Van Imhoff saw an interesting opportunity in ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=265275We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dutch Sri Lankans: Gustaaf Willem Van Imhoff, Michael Vandort, Quint Ondaatje, George Keyt, Maureen Hingert, Jean Arasanayagam, Pieter Keuneman. To get started finding Dutch Sri Lankans: Gustaaf Willem Van Imhoff, Michael Vandort, Quint Ondaatje, George Keyt, Maureen Hingert, Jean Arasanayagam, Pieter Keuneman, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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2010
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Dutch Sri Lankans: Gustaaf Willem Van Imhoff, Michael Vandort, Quint Ondaatje, George Keyt, Maureen Hingert, Jean Arasanayagam, Pieter Keuneman

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Description: Chapters: Gustaaf Willem Van Imhoff, Michael Vandort, Quint Ondaatje, George Keyt, Maureen Hingert, Jean Arasanayagam, Pieter Keuneman. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Gustaaf Willem, Baron van Imhoff (August 8, 1705 LeerNovember 1, 1750) was the governor of Ceylon and then the Dutch East Indies for the Dutch East India Company (VOC-Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie). Van Imhoff was born into an East Frisian aristocratic family. His father, Wilhelm Heinrich Freiherr von Imhoff, came from the town of Leer in northwestern Germany, a few kilometers from the Dutch border. In 1725, Van Imhoff entered into the service of the Dutch East India Company in Batavia (modern-day Jakarta), then colonial capital of the Dutch East Indies. Van Imhoff was promoted several times within the company before being appointed colonial governor in Ceylon (Modern-day Sri Lanka) on July 23, 1736. Van Imhoff's tenure as governor of Ceylon put an end to the chaos that had pervaded the previous administration. He established constructive relations with the king of Kandy, Vira Narendra Sinha. King Narendra was married to a Tamil princess of Madurai (Tamil Nadu, India), and their child, Sri Vijaya Rajasinha who succeeded him after Narendra's death on May 24, 1739, was seen to be more Tamil than Sinhalese (the majority ethnic group in Ceylon). Imhoff was concerned about this succession because closer contact between the Tamils of Ceylon, under Sri Vijaya Rajasinha, and the Tamils of south India might endanger the Dutch East India Company's commercial monopoly. In his letters, Van Imhoff expressed his surprise that the Sinhalese people had accepted such a king, considering their haughty attitude towards the Tamils of India. However, Van Imhoff saw an interesting opportunity in ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=265275We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dutch Sri Lankans: Gustaaf Willem Van Imhoff, Michael Vandort, Quint Ondaatje, George Keyt, Maureen Hingert, Jean Arasanayagam, Pieter Keuneman. To get started finding Dutch Sri Lankans: Gustaaf Willem Van Imhoff, Michael Vandort, Quint Ondaatje, George Keyt, Maureen Hingert, Jean Arasanayagam, Pieter Keuneman, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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2010
ISBN
1158551339

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