Max Havelaar (1860) scandalized Dutch Indies administration and made Dekker famous

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But Valck was of a generation familiar with one of its most widely acclaimed practitioners, Eduard Douwes Dekker, whose exposé-novel Max Havelaar (1860) put the Indies administration in the political limelight of scandal and Douwes Dekker on the international literary map. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1104