This paper examines the origins, spread and practices of professional forestry in Southeast Asia, focusing on key sites in colonial and post-colonial Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. Part 1, in an earlier issue of this journal, challenged popular and scholarly accounts of colonial forestry as a set of simplifying practices exported from Europe and applied in the European colonies. We showed th...

In 1897 Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, appointed Patrick Manson (1844-1922) Medical Adviser to the Colonial Office.' Manson's assumption of that post opened the last fifteen years of his already notable professional life. His primary charge as Medical Adviser was not, as is commonly thought, to advise on policy matters; Manson's main, ifsomewhat less exalted, responsib...

This article focuses on culture and rule of law in Indonesia, which provides an excellent case study in colonialism and post-colonialism. The colonial heritage of the Indonesian islands goes back to the early 1500s and lasted for approximately four centuries (Schultz 2002:144145) until independence was declared in August 1945 (GoGwilt 1996: 158). This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer i...

The paper attempts to investigate the historical origin, development and limitation of western modernity. It pursues why how modernity was developed from eighteen centuries twenties centuries. While discussing early chronological, sociological political developments it requires separation state religious autocracy establishment technology based industrial society. shaped countries traditional s...

Indian magazines and print culture in general have been studied more thoroughly for the colonial period, but 1950s–1970s rightly called golden age of magazine culture. In Hindi literary lore, loom large as main platform literature, where poets fiction writers found readers recognition critics debated aesthetics ideology. To borrow Amit Chaudhuri’s phrase, were sites intense ‘literary activism’:...

In this paper, I first introduce some principles of comparative cultural studies, followed by a brief description of methodology, systemic and empirical approach, and contextual framework. This introduction of theory and method will be followed by a brief discussion of the notion of Central European culture – real or imagined – defined as an ›in-between peripheral‹ and ›(post)colonial space‹. N...