DUTCH LANGUAGE IN THE DUTCH EAST INDIES

In October 1993 a commercial edition of the PH.D thesis of Kees
Groeneboer appeared entitled Weg tot het Westen; Het Nederlands
voor Indi‰ 1600-1950; Een taalpolitieke geschiedenis [The route
to the West; The Dutch language in the Dutch East Indies
1600-1950; A history of the language policy] (Leiden: KITLV
Press, 1993, 580 pp.). To mark this occasion, on the 22nd of
October, a small seminar on `Indo-Dutch' was organized at Leiden
University, in co-operation with the KITLV-Press and The Society
of Dutch East-Indian Literature at Leiden University.
In four lectures attention was paid to several aspects of the
`Indo-Dutch language': Dr Kees Groeneboer spoke on ` The figtht
against Indo-Dutch in the Dutch-Indian schools'; Rupalees Verma
M.A. made a comparison with the situation in the British-Indies
in her talk on ` Anglo-Indian and Anglo-Indian literature'; the
journalist Joop van den Berg dealt with the use of `Indo-Dutch
language in Indo-Dutch lietrature'; and finally Prof. Dr Jan de
Vries discussed `The linguistic value of Indo-Dutch'. The text of
these lectures will be published spring 1994 in the magazine
Indische Letteren [Dutch East-Indian Literature].