Aspects of Dutch Colonial family law related to the Indonesian Rajah of Tambora's exile at the Cape

dc.contributor.authorMoosa, Najma
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-07T08:34:39Z
dc.date.available2022-06-07T08:34:39Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstract'As far as family law is concerned, we in South Africa have ... every kind of family ... This is the result of ... history ... Our families are suffused with history, as family law is suffused with history, culture, belief and personality. For researchers it's a paradise ... 't The above quotation is apt for this chapter for two reasons. First, the chapter highlights the plight of the family of the former Rajah of Tambora, during a period of Dutch colonialism at the Cape, as one such historical example. The Rajah was one of many royal and high-ranking influential Indonesian political exiles (known as 'Orang Cayeng') banished to the Cape for rebelling against the Dutch. The Cape was under a first period of Dutch rule for roughly 150 years from 1652 until 1795. During this time it was governed by the Dutch East India Company or Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC).2 The Rajah and his wife arrived at the Cape in 1698. As also confirmed by the visiting Reverend Francois Valentijn in his account of his journey to the Cape, the Rajah, who had ruled over a small kingdom called Tambora on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa, was 'banished to the Cape because of his bad behaviour on Bima, and she [his wife] followed for love of him'3 The states of Tambora and Bima were VOC trade posts located on the same island (Sumbawa). 4 The Rajah spent a total of some 17 years at the Cape, over, uniquely, two distinct periods in exile there (from 1698 to 1710 and 1714 to 1719).5 At the time of their arrival the couple were childless but by 1719 they were blessed with five children, four sons and a daughter. It is clear from the names of the Rajah and his wife, Abulbasi Sultan and Zytie Sara Marouff (or Care Sale), and the birthnames of their children (Ibraim Adaham, Mochamat Aseek, Mochamat Daijan, Mochamat Asim and Sitina Asia) that all were Muslims.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMoosa, N. (2020) “South Africa: Aspects of Dutch Colonial Family Law Related to the Indonesian Rajah of Tambora’s Exile at the Cape,” in Brinig, M. (ed.) International Survey of Family Law 2020. Intersentia, pp. 265–302. doi: 10.1017/9781839700910.017en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9781839700910
dc.identifier.urihttp://doi.org/10.1017/9781839700910.017
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/7500
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_US
dc.subjectFamily lawen_US
dc.subjectExileen_US
dc.subjectRajah of Tamboraen_US
dc.subjectDutch East India Company (VOC)en_US
dc.subjectWestern Capeen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.titleAspects of Dutch Colonial family law related to the Indonesian Rajah of Tambora's exile at the Capeen_US
dc.typeBook chapteren_US

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