Works related to Dutch thombos

Works related to Dutch thombos

Belt, Albert van den, Jan Kok, and Kees Mandemakers, “Digital Thombos: A New Source for 18th Century Sri Lankan Family History,” The History of the Family 16, no. 4 (2011), 481–89.

Bulten, Luc.

Dewasiri, Nirmal Ranjith, The Adaptable Peasant: Agrarian Society in Western Sri Lanka under Dutch Rule, 1740–1800 (Leiden: Brill, 2008).

Jurriaanse, Maria Wilhelmina, Catalogue of the Archives of the Dutch Central Government of Coastal Ceylon, 1640–1796 (Colombo: Ceylon Government Press, 1943).

Mottau, S.A.W. (trans), “Documents on Ceylon History (2): Documents Relating to the Tombo Registration of the Dutch Administration in Ceylon: Instructions Issued to the Tombo Commissioners,” Ceylon Historical Journal 3, no. 2 (1953), 173–89.

Mottau, S.A.W., Inventory of the Archives of the Dutch Government in the Divisions of Galle (Matara) and Jaffnapatnam 1640–1796 (The Hague: General State Archives, 1975).

Rupesinghe, Nadeera, “Defining Land Rights in Dutch Sri Lanka,” Portuguese Journal of Social Science 16, no. 2 (2017), 143–61.

Rupesinghe, Nadeera, Lawmaking in Dutch Sri Lanka: Navigating Pluralities in a Colonial Society (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2023)

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