Dutch colonial planners compared experiments from Australia, the Caribbean, and India.

Evidence

Some planners had visions that resonated with Dutch experiments in social welfare planning. Others drew their blueprints from models of reform, containment, and colonization tried out in other contexts and in other parts of the imperial world. In turning to Australia, the Caribbean, and India, authorities reviewed experiments that were known to have gone dangerously awry or to have met with success. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 652

Categorization

• QUESTION: Which specific ‘dangerously awry’ experiments in Australia, the Caribbean, and India did Dutch authorities track? Worth chasing the footnotes for concrete cases.