Agrarian schemes for troublesome Eurasians were cross-party political platforms that nonetheless always failed

Evidence

The commitment to recuperating an agrarian space for those awkwardly positioned in Indies society played upon nervous premonition and vague senses of loss, on both rural nostalgia and industrial anxiety. Such sentiments were shared by others beyond the colonial authorities. The vision of a white settler society, or a farming class made up of Inlandsche kinderen, held political appeal for many who were not part of the delusional colonial decisionmaking apparatus. “Land to the tiller” was an early platform at the turn of the century for an emergent Indo-European political movement peopled with Indies-born Europeans, discontent with the European-born monopoly on economic resources, social status, and political rights. It was also a platform of the strongly conservative Fatherland’s Club in the 1930s. … Virtually every proposal to alleviate what in the twentieth-century came to be called the “Indo problem” through agriculture was defeated before it got off the ground. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 796

Categorization

• SEED: The recurring near-identity of ‘Indo problem’ agrarian policy across opposed political movements — liberal emigrationists and conservative clubs alike — is a strong angle for an essay on how the same epistemic colonial framework persists across nominal political camps.