Dutch colonial government

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The Dutch colonial government was the administrative authority of the Netherlands in its overseas territories, most notably the Dutch East Indies, where it imposed exploitative economic and political systems on colonized populations.


Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf colonial government
administrativeLanguage Dutch
appliedToTerritory Aruba
Bonaire
Curaçao
Dutch Brazil
Cape Colony
surface form: Dutch Cape Colony

Ceylon (Dutch Ceylon)
surface form: Dutch Ceylon

Dutch East Indies
Formosa
surface form: Dutch Formosa

Dutch Gold Coast
Dutch Caribbean
surface form: Dutch West Indies

Netherlands Antilles
Saba
Sint Eustatius
Sint Maarten
Suriname
capitalInMainColony Batavia
Jakarta
characterizedBy economic exploitation
political repression
racial hierarchy
colonialPower Netherlands
country Kingdom of the Netherlands
economicPolicy monopoly trade
resource extraction
economicSystem Cultivation System
forced labor
plantation economy
endCentury 20th century
endedInMainColony 1949
endedInTerritory Suriname 1975
imposedOn Indigenous peoples in the Caribbean
Indonesian population
enslaved Africans
legacy Dutch-speaking Caribbean territories
formation of Indonesia
legalSystem Roman-Dutch law
surface form: Dutch colonial law
mainColony Dutch East Indies
maintainedInstitution Council of the Indies
Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
Volksraad of the Dutch East Indies
notableEvent Aceh War
Indonesian National Revolution
Java
surface form: Java War
politicalSystem authoritarian rule
indirect rule
religiousPolicy Christian missionary support
regulation of Islam
startCentury 17th century

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sutan Sjahrir detainedBy Dutch colonial government
this entity surface form: Dutch colonial authorities
Bonifacius Cornelis de Jonge employer Dutch colonial government
this entity surface form: Colonial administration of the Dutch East Indies
Herman Willem Daendels employer Dutch colonial government
this entity surface form: Dutch colonial administration
Hubertus van Mook employer Dutch colonial government
this entity surface form: Government of the Dutch East Indies
Jonkheer Carel Herman Aart van der Wijck employer Dutch colonial government
this entity surface form: Colonial administration of the Dutch East Indies
Cultivation System implementedBy Dutch colonial government
Dutch Ethical Policy implementedBy Dutch colonial government
this entity surface form: Dutch colonial administration
this entity surface form: Dutch colonial authorities