Tag: colonial era

  • An Opin­ion on The Hajj

    C. Snouck Hur­gron­je (1857−1936) was a famous Dutch ori­en­tal­ist as well as the main archi­tect of the Dutch colo­nial pol­i­cy towards Islam in Indone­sia, which, under his direc­tions, was much more inter­fer­ing in the inter­nal affairs of the Mus­lims than the British pol­i­cy in the Indi­an sub-continent. In those days when colo­nial­ism and slav­ery used to…