The Laguna Copperplate Inscription is one of very few Philippine historical documents
dating from the precolonial period and the only one bearing information on the social life of …

This article considers the curious case study of Thai literary networks in the late Ayutthaya,
the networks' adoption and adaptations of the Javanese Panji epic, and what these …

This article explores some of the ways by which a small diasporic Muslim community in the
colonial era–known today as the Sri Lankan Malays–maintained its culture through the …

This article traces a largely forgotten Malay dialect which was historically in use among
South African Muslims of Southeast Asian origin. Its use reached its pinnacle in the …

The community known today as the Sri Lankan Malays traces its roots to political exiles,
convicts, servants and soldiers sent to colonial Ceylon by the Dutch East India Company …

Literary Histories Have All Too Often Been Written with the Borders of Nation-States in Mind,
Projecting Back in Time a political unity and standard use of language that only gradually …

Scholars have long debated whether the relationship between Islam and Javanese culture
should be considered syncretism or inculturation. This article analyzes Javanese literature to …

There has been some very interesting work in Indonesian history combining the roles of
various social sciences. One thinks particularly of the work of Sartono Kartodirjo, the great …

Frontiers are a productive site–geographically and metaphorically–for considering world
literature and world history. This chapter considers the frontiers of Southeast Asian Islam, of …

T he topic of political exile from and within the Indonesian archipelago under the United
Dutch East India Company (VOC) remains understudied. Especially limited is our …