The experience of displacement has shaped the politics of many Muslim movements across Southeast Asia. This panel previews a special issue of Itinerario on coerced mobility, and the diverse responses of groups of Muslims in Siam’s incorporation of Patani, Dutch efforts to colonise Aceh, and anti-colonial movements like the Darul Islam in Java and the Communist Party's Tenth Regiment in Malaya.

Since the nineteenth century, today’s South and Southeast Asia have become part of scholarly and popular thinking that defines the region as a single, superior, Hindu-Buddhist civilisation with its source in India

Online book launch: Sinophone Southeast Asia: Sinitic voices across the Southern seas, by Tom Hoogervorst and Caroline Chia (editors).

Dutch armed forces were willing to accept high casualties in Indonesia. The decolonisation war in Indonesia was violent partly because the Dutch military operated on the conviction that

This book recounts the little-known history of Cornelis Chastelein, a high-ranking official of the Dutch East India Company and the 150-200 enslaved people he purchased from slave markets around South-East Asia to work his landed estates in the Batavian (Jakarta) hinterlands.