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• The World in Small, or the Swift Traveller: The Land of the Great Moghul (De waereld in ’t klein, of de spoedige reiziger)
  Translation of a chapter on India, or “the Land of the Great Moghul,” from an 18th-century Dutch-language compendium of the countries of the world. Drawing extensively on an English model published in the 1740s, the author aims to give a concise account of “everything useful, necessary and worth knowing” about all countries of the world. In this section, he shares with his readers what he considers worth knowing about the Indian Subcontinent and its people.
• Dwars door Britsch-Indië (Across the British East Indies)
  Translation of an article published in the Dutch Catholic newspaper De Tijd, on January 18, 1930.
• De moordgodin Bowani (The murder goddess Bhowani)
  Translation of an article published on August 17th, 1934, in Het Nieuwsblad van het Zuiden, a Dutch regional newspaper based in Tilburg.
• Uit de Heidenwereld: Een Hindoesche roversbende (From the Heathen World: A Hindu Band of Robbers)
  Translation of an article titled published on August 7, 1893, in Het Nieuwe Dagblad voor Utrecht en de Provincie, a Dutch regional newspaper based in Utrecht and intended for a Catholic reading public.
• De thugs, eene sekte van moordenaars, in Indië (The thugs, a sect of murderers, in India)
  Translation of a Dutch 19th-century newspaper article on the so-called ‘thugs’, robbers who were allegedly motivated by their religious beliefs and followed a specific modus operandi: they strangled and robbed unsuspecting travelers on desolate travel routes and claimed to follow ‘divine instructions’ from Kali. The article was published in three parts in the regional newspaper Vlissingsche Courant in 1837.
• De Indische krisis uit het standpunt van christelijke beschaving beschouwd (The Indian crisis, as seen from the viewpoint of Christian civilization)
  A translation of an article on the ‘Great Mutiny’ or Indian Rebellion of 1857, where the author relates it to the policy of religious neutrality of the East India Company. The original Dutch article was published in 1858 in a periodical of the Dutch Reformed Church but was itself a translation of a German text by Dr. Wilhelm Hoffman.