Contested conjugality? Sinhalese marriage practices in Eighteenth-Century Dutch colonial Sri Lanka KU Leuven
© Belin. Tous droits réservés pour tous pays. Dutch colonial Sri Lanka in the eighteenth century offers a unique opportunity to study the dynamics of colonial control of everyday family life. This article focuses on the Dutch registration of Sinhalese marriage practices, which we know from scattered sources to have been strikingly different from what the Calvinist Dutch deemed appropriate, with cohabitation before marriage, easy divorce and ...