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Author Carey, P. B. R.

Title The power of prophecy : Prince Dipanagara and the end of an old order in Java, 1785-1855 / Peter Carey
Published Leiden : KITLV Press, 2007
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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 964 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 249
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 249
Contents I. The south-central Javanese world, circa 1792-1825. The 'Versailles of Java': Yogya in the early nineteenth century -- The Yogya military establishment -- The landed base of the military establishment -- The royal apanage system -- The role of the tax collectors -- The western mancanagara: Banyumas -- The western nagara agung: Bagelèn -- Social groups and the village community -- The golden age of the sikep? -- Extension of ricefields and development of irrigation -- Demographic growth, 1755-1825 -- Public health -- Diet and peasant lifestyles -- Early marriage and the value of children -- Rural criminality, social bandits and fighting cocks -- The forces of law and order -- The Yogya taxation system and the eastern outlying districts -- The pancas revisions of the second sultan and their impact -- II. Dipanagara's youth and upbringing, 1785-1803. A prophetic birth -- Female relatives and influences -- A Tegalreja childhood
IX. Binding on the iron yoke: The returned Dutch administration, the impoverishment of the south-central Javanese peasantry and the rise of millenarian expectations, 1816-1822. Squaring the circle -- A Resident who enjoyed eating and drinking and the spreading of Dutch ways -- The early challenges of Nahuys' Residency -- Nahuys' land-rent initiative in the Principalities and its problems -- Raffles' land tax, coffee plantations and the situation in Kedhu -- The working of the tollgates -- The impact of the tollgates on internal trade and Sino-Javanese relations -- The effects of the opium monopoly -- Popular millenarian movements and prophecies in south-central Java -- The crisis in the Javanese countryside; the cholera epidemic of 1821 and Pangéran Dipasana's revolt -- Events at the courts in the last years of Pakubuwana IV and Hamengkubuwana IV's reigns -- X. Waiting for the 'Just King': The road to war in south-central Java, 1822-1825
Daendels' edicts on ceremonial and etiquette and their impact -- Military manoeuvres; Javanese and Dutch -- The emergence of an anti-Dutch party in Yogya -- The Javanese buffalo confronts the Dutch tiger -- VI. The old order's last champion: The origins and course of Radèn Rongga's rebellion, 1809- 1810. The despoliation of Yogya -- Military preparations and Daendels' July 1809 visit -- The struggle over the teak trade and the crisis in the eastern mancanagara and pasisir -- The scapegoating of Radèn Rongga -- The April-August 1810 crisis in Dutch-Yogya relations -- The 'piling up' of affairs and preparations for Rongga's rebellion -- Cleansing Java of defilement; Radèn Rongga's eastern mancanagara rebellion -- VII. The end of the beginning; the last months of the Franco-Dutch government and the British rape of Yogyakarta, 1811-1812. The reckoning -- Incipient civil war in Yogya -- The collapse of the Franco-Dutch government
Inheriting the Tegalreja estate -- The Tegalreja circle; early contacts with the Islamic communities -- III. Young manhood: Marriage, education, and links with the santri community, 1803-1805. First marriage and development of the Tegalreja community -- Education and literary interests -- Character, intellectual ability and relations with Europeans -- Understanding of Islam -- Appearance, personality, family and pleasures -- IV. Pilgrimage to the south coast, circa 1805. Lelana: spiritual wanderings as rite de passage -- Preparations for a pilgrimage -- Tirakat: solitary withdrawal and first visions -- At the south coast: meetings with Ratu Kidul -- Final instruction at Parangkusuma and return to Tegalreja -- V. The beginning of the ruin of the Land of Java: Yogyakarta and Daendels' new order, 1808. Daendels' new order -- Plans for annexation of territory in central and east Java
Leadership and regional loyalties -- The role of the santri communities -- Satria and santri: the breakdown in relations between Dipanagara and Kyai Maja -- Dutch military and political tactics -- Dipanagara's fiscal regime: Senthot and the problems of dwifungsi -- XII. Enduring the unendurable: Dipanagara's capture at Magelang and exile in Sulawesi, 1830-1855. Part One: The road to Magelang and Batavia -- The colonel's promise: Dipanagara's negotiations with Cleerens in February 1830 and the question of safe conduct -- Treachery or honourable submission? Dipanagara's arrest at Magelang, 28 March 1830 -- Steamboat to Batavia: how Dipanagara received the governor-general's life sentence -- Part Two: The sultan over the water -- The Radeau de Méduse: surviving the corvette 'Pollux', 3 May-12 June 1830 -- A Minahasan interlude: Dipanagara's Manado years, 1830-1833 -- Closing the circle: the state prisoner of Fort Rotterdam, Makasar, 1833-1855
The man of destiny -- The aftermath of the fourth sultan's death and Dipanagara's guardianship -- The December 1822 eruption of Mountt Merapi and the Jayabaya prophecies -- A small, fat and shy man: Yogyakarta's new Resident -- The abolition of the land-rent and its consequences -- Dipanagara's role as guardian and the land-rent indemnities -- Dipanagara's break with the court -- The moral rot: Danureja's rule and the conduct of senior Dutch officials in Yogya -- The government's annexation plans and their impact -- Dipanagara's pre-war visions -- Dipanagara's understanding of his role as a Javanese Just King and his attitude towards the Europeans in Java -- Preparations for rebellion -- The outbreak of the Java War -- XI. The last stand of the old order: reflections on the Java War, 1825-1830. Mobilization for war: finance, peasant manpower and armaments -- The role of women -- Xenophobia and identity: changing attitudes towards the Chinese and issues of Javanese language and culture
The squaring of accounts -- The British attempt at compromise and Raffles' first visit to the courts -- Preparations for war -- The fall of Yogyakarta,20 June 1812 -- VIII. Into a new era: The British interregnum, 1812-1816. Lineaments of a new order -- The plunder of the Yogya kraton -- The appointment of Hamengkubuwana III and kasepuhan-karajan rivalries -- Creation of the Pakualaman, exile of the old sultan and the disposal of kraton plunder -- The third sultan's new order and Dipanagara's role -- The 1 August 1812 treaties and their implications -- Positive developments during the third sultan's reign -- Political and administrative changes -- Dipanagara's second marriage and the death of the third sultan -- Accession, regency and marriage of the boy sultan, Hamengkubuwana IV -- The Sayyid Kramat disturbance in Madiun and the sepoy plot of 1815
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 845-870) and index
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Subject Dipanegara, Pangeran, 1785-1855.
Princes -- Indonesia -- Java -- Biography.
SUBJECT Java (Indonesia) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93001372
Genre/Form Biography.
History.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008464956