Sources with the tag 'colonial intellectual'

Halfmoon Camp in Wünsdorf-Zossen. Three-legged race

The postcard shows a group of prisoners of war and their guards in the propaganda camp in Wünsdorf. They are shown supposedly in their leisure time; some of them doing a three-legged race, others are…

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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Postcard; Photograph; Captivity
Tags: colonial intellectual, Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Jihad, Muslims, Personal Encounters, Photograph, postcard, POW, pow-camp

Cover image: Die Woche - Bilder vom Tage, 11 January 1916

This cover image from Die Woche published on 11 January 1916 shows a sketch of Sheikh Salih al-Sharif al-Tunisi. He was a religious North African scholar who worked as a propagandist, advocating…

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Themes: Religion; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Intellectual Exchange
Tags: anti-colonialism, anti-French, colonial intellectual, Colonialism, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Jihad, Muslims, Non-Combatant, orientalism, Ottoman Empire, pan-Islamism, Personal Encounters, POW, Propaganda, religion

Report by Raden Mas Sosrokartono to Henri Allizé, French envoy to The Hague, on Der Neue Orient, ca. 1917-1918

Plan written by the Indonesian journalist, translator and writer Raden Mas Sosrokartono to counter German imperial strategies in Asia, in particular the German journal Der Neue Orient. Armed with this…

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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
Tags: anti-colonialism, anti-German, colonial intellectual, Dutch East Indies, France, German Revolutionary Program, Imperial identity, imperial strategy, loyalty, newspapers, Propaganda, The Netherlands

Our duty

Newspaper article by the most famous Indonesian anti-colonial writer and revolutionary Ernest Douwes Dekker on the duties and loyalties of Dutch colonials. The article 'Our Duty' was published in the…

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Themes: Religion; Race; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
Tags: anti-British, anti-colonialism, colonial intellectual, Colonial soldiers, Dutch East Indies, loyalty, Neutrality, newspapers, pro-German, socialism, The Netherlands

India under British Rule

This poem was written by the Irish poet Denis Florence MacCarthy (1817–1882). It was published in the first issue of a journal which had been published in Urdu under the title (achwat/achuwwat)…

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Themes: Poem; Newspapers & Magazines; Language; Imperial Strategy
Tags: anti-British, anti-colonialism, colonial intellectual, Colonialism, colonies, imperial strategy, India, Ireland, Language, Ottoman Empire, Poem, revolution, Urdu

Efforts for the liberation of Algeria and Tunisia: A convention in Berlin, convoked by Sheikh Salih al-Sharif

The photograph shows a group of men and one woman standing on a stairway in front of a facade. In the background, chandeliers are visible. Sheikh Salih al-Sharif is standing in the first row, second…

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Themes: Religion; Propaganda; Photograph; Newspapers & Magazines; Mobility; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
Tags: Algeria, anti-colonialism, anti-French, colonial intellectual, Colonialism, German Revolutionary Program, newspapers, Non-Combatant, pan-Islamism, Propaganda, Refugees

Sheikh Saleh Scherif, spearhead for the liberation of Tunisia and Algeria from the French yoke

The sketch shows the profile of Salih al-Sharif al-Tunisi, a religious Tunisian-Algerian scholar and propagandist with the Ottoman Teşkilât-ı Mahsusa.

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Tags: Algeria, anti-colonialism, anti-French, colonial intellectual, cultural propaganda, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, Jihad, newspapers, Ottoman Empire, pan-Islamism, religion, western front

For my Fatherland

This second part of the poem 'For my Fatherland' is written by the poet Raden Mas Noto Soeroto, a Javanese prince. He was the first Indonesian poet to write Dutch. During the war, he was introduced to…

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Themes: Race; Poem; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
Tags: anti-colonialism, colonial intellectual, Dutch, Dutch East Indies, Imperial identity, Java, nationalism, poet, Tagore

Memoir by French colonial veteran

A translation of the seminal First World War memoir written by Bakary Diallo, a Pullo soldier from Senegal who fought for France in the war. Diallo shares his life story, including his childhood in…

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Themes: Race; Mobility; Memoirs
Tags: Africa, colonial intellectual, Colonial Troops, France, Memoir, Memory

Letters from Chempa Karam Pillai in Amsterdam to the Indian Independence Committee in Berlin

In August 1915, the British Indian revolutionary and German agent Chempa Karam Pillai (image 1) wrote several reports from Amsterdam to the German-sponsored Indian Independence Committee in Berlin. He…

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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Mobility; Letter; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
Tags: Berlin Indian Independence Committee, colonial intellectual, Dutch East Indies, Ernest Douwes Dekker, Imperial identity, imperial strategy, India, Japan, Java, nationalism, Neutrality, pamphlet, Siam

Second plan of work for Bangkok by Ernest Douwes Dekker

In this report addressed to the German Foreign Office, the anti-colonial Indonesian writer and politician Ernest Douwes Dekker (image 1) describes his secret mission to travel from Rotterdam to…

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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Mobility; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
Tags: anti-British, anti-colonialism, Berlin Indian Independence Committee, colonial intellectual, Dutch East Indies, Ernest Douwes Dekker, German Revolutionary Program, Germany, Imperial identity, imperial strategy, India, Java, nationalism, Neutrality, The Netherlands