A Short History of the Indo-Europeans of the Netherlands Indies
By Humphrey de la Croix – Indischhistorisch.nl The loss of the Indies after handing over sovereignty to Soekarno’s, Indonesia in 1949, must have affected Dutch political leadership, business, and veterans to such a degree that two generations of historians and political scientists considered the postcolonial era as a ‘no-go area’. The third imperial nation (after…