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Archive map

The working surface of the Recorded Legal Memory Desk. Each colonial-era record is paired with a Tamil-produced counter-source. The Tamil source takes precedence where both exist.

Fig. 2 — Every colonial-era record is paired with a Tamil-produced counter-source. Dutch recorded; they did not grant.

Custodian

National Archives of the Netherlands (Den Haag)

Scope

VOC inventory 1.04.02. Complete VOC administrative record including the Jaffnapatnam Memoirs (1657–1796). Inscribed UNESCO Memory of the World (2003).

Citation practice

Cite as: Nationaal Archief, VOC 1.04.02, [folio]. Always name the Tamil Mudaliars who supplied the underlying compilation before naming the Dutch governor.

Tamil counter-source

Paired with ola-leaf manuscripts in the Jaffna Public Library reconstruction and EAP1450 digitisation.

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Custodian

Leiden University Libraries

Scope

Memoirs of the Dutch Governors of Ceylon (Dutch-language source manuscripts), Thesawalamai source documents, secondary scholarship on Jaffnapatnam.

Citation practice

Cite as: Leiden UB, [shelfmark]. Use as evidentiary source for the 1706 compilation moment, not as legitimating authority.

Tamil counter-source

Paired with Tambiah (1954) and contemporary Tamil legal-history scholarship from University of Jaffna.

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Custodian

KITLV (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies)

Scope

Tamil legal-history monographs, the H.W. Tambiah scholarly archive, comparative customary-law sources across former VOC territory.

Citation practice

Cite as: KITLV, [collection / shelfmark]. Strongest for comparative analysis (Jaffnapatnam vs Coromandel vs Malabar customary law).

Tamil counter-source

Paired with Sri Lankan customary-law scholarship and Magalir Avai's standing on gender provisions.

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Custodian

British Library — Endangered Archives Programme EAP1450

Scope

Active digitisation of Jaffna land registers and ola-leaf manuscripts. Tamil-produced record — temple grants, family land registers, kovil-puranam.

Citation practice

Cite as: BL EAP1450, [record ID]. This is the Tamil-produced corpus. Always lead with this before colonial-era sources where both exist.

Tamil counter-source

The corpus itself is the Tamil counter-source. Pair with Land & Property Desk for active-use citations.

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Custodian

Sri Lankan Statute Book

Scope

Regulation No. 18 of 1806 (Thesawalamai codification), Tesawalamai Pre-emption Ordinance 1947, and case law from Northern Province district courts to present.

Citation practice

Cite as: Sri Lanka, Reg. No. 18 of 1806 / Pre-emption Ordinance (1947, amended). This is the continuity evidence — statute that has never been judicially broken.

Tamil counter-source

Pair with University of Jaffna law-faculty scholarship and active district-court judgements (anonymised).

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Standing rule

Where a Tamil-produced source (ola-leaf, temple record, kovil-puranam, district-court judgement) contradicts a colonial-era record, the Tamil source takes precedence. The colonial record is treated as one witness among several — never as the original.

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