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Lombok : Conquest, Colonization and Underdevelopment, 1870 - 1940
Outline: Between 1870 and 1940 Lombok was transformed from one of the more powerful pre-colonial Indonesian states into an almost forgotten region of the Netherlands East Indies. This book evaluates Balinese rule in the last decades of tne nineteenth century and discusses in 1894 Dutch conquest. It shows that both Balinese and Dutch rule were based upon superior military force and examines some of the effects of Balinese and Dutch political power on the socia-economic relations among the indigenous Sasak people. Dr van der Kraan argues that the Sasak peasants have been the great historical losers. Conquered by the Balinese, betrayed by their own aristocratic leaders, and once again conquered by the Dutch, they continued to be the victims of on-going and increasing oppression and exploitation.
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