![]() Yet despite the Ethical Policy’s ideological resonance and temporal coincidence with other forms of European liberal imperialism ¬– notably the “white man’s burden” of the Anglophone world and the French mission civilisatrice – the Dutch program in the Indies is little known outside a narrow specialist field. The reforms have a well-established intellectual history in the Dutch-language literature, where their social and cultural trajectory has conventionally been traced through the words and texts of (mainly Dutch) elites. 1901–1942), then the Netherlands East Indies. ![]() “Ethical Policy” (Ethische Politiek) is the term frequently used by historians to indicate the suite of liberal-developmentalist reforms debated and implemented by Dutch colonial elites in early twentieth-century Indonesia (c. ![]()
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