Eruptive dissent broke through the organizers’ careful moderation.

Evidence

The organizers might have appeased Rochussen, but rumors of broader political dissent were spreading fast and not all parties were in accord with Van Hoëvell’s plan. In the meantime Van Hoëvell, in the newly minted magazine of which he was publisher and editor, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië, wrote an article about “matters of state” that Rochussen expressly had asked him not to publish. In the afternoon of that same May twentieth, Rochussen would receive cause for alarm from other quarters. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 475

Categorization

• XREF: Shows the fragility of the depoliticization strategy when wider, unmanaged publics enter — connects to the ‘associative commonsense’ idea of how colonial publics were assembled and policed. — connects to: Expanded protest crowds can blunt original organizers’ political messaging. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 409; Mass protests collapse open plurality into one narrow imposed meaning at the end — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 518