ABSTRACT The subject of ‘Indies Lives in the Netherlands’ has been most extensively studied with reference to mid-twentieth century, postcolonial ‘returnees’ who arrived in the Netherlands in large numbers in the wake of Indonesian independence. There is, however, an important earlier history here. Throughout the late colonial period, many wealthy ‘Indies’ families maintained close and organic relations with the Dutch metropole. Some of these families (or branches of them), though originally Indies-based, relocated permanently to the Netherlands and established themselves among the Dutch bourgeoisie. This paper examines the history of such a family, one of mixed Scots-Javanese-Dutch ancestry, which settled in The Hague in the last decade of the nineteenth century. In so doing, it demonstrates the extent to which the plethora of recently available genealogical data can be used in the reconstruction of family histories to create a picture that can exist alongside – both complementing and complicating – any trend towards discourse-based approaches to the subject.

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Kin，Colony和Metropole：荷兰资产阶级中的苏格兰人印度裔家庭，c。1890–1915年

摘要关于“印度人在荷兰的生活”这一主题，已参照20世纪中叶进行了最广泛的研究，殖民地后的“回返者”是在印度尼西亚独立后大量到达荷兰的。但是，这里有一个重要的早期历史。在整个殖民时期后期，许多富有的“印度”家庭与荷兰大都会保持着密切而有机的关系。这些家庭中的一些（或其中的分支机构）虽然最初以印度为基地，但已永久性地迁移到荷兰，并在荷兰资产阶级中确立了自己的地位。本文考察了这样一个家族的历史，这个家族是苏格兰人-爪哇人-荷兰人混合血统之一，该家族于19世纪最后十年定居在海牙。这样，