A translation of an excerpt from a Dutch 18th-century travel account by the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) clerk and merchant Jacob Haafner, an early critic of colonialism and celebrated travel writer in the early 19th century. The text contains his observations on the famine of 1782 that shook the Madras Presidency and, in Haafner’s eyes, illustrated the inhumanity and barbarism of the British in India.
Reizen in eenen Palaquin (Travels in a Palanquin) A translation of an excerpt from a Dutch 18th-century travel account by the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) clerk and merchant Jacob Haafner, an early critic of colonialism and celebrated travel writer in the early 19th century. The text contains his observations on the famine of 1782 that shook the Madras Presidency and, in Haafner’s eyes, illustrated the inhumanity and barbarism of the British in India.