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The History of Java, v. 1-2 — Thomas Stamford, Sir Raffles

The History of Java, v. 1-2

Thomas Stamford, Sir Raffles

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  • Book language: English
  • 1196 pages

The History of Java is a two-volume historical study by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, a former lieutenant-governor of the island. It surveys Java's geography, peoples, customs, and antiquities. Listeners interested in Southeast Asia and colonial-era scholarship will find it a rich period account.

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THE
HISTORY
OF
JAVA.
BY THE LATE
SIR THOMAS STAMFORD RAFFLES, F.R.S.
FORMERLY LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OF THAT ISLAND AND ITS
DEPENDENCIES, AND PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS AND
SCIENCES AT BATAVIA.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.

SECOND EDITION.
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.
MDCCCXXX.
GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS,
ST. JOHN'S SQUARE, LONDON.

TO

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS

THE PRINCE REGENT.

SIR,

The gracious permission which I have received to dedicate these volumes to your Royal Highness, affords me an opportunity of interesting your Royal Highness in favour of the amiable and ingenuous people whose country they describe. The high respect they entertain for British valour and justice, and the lively gratitude they retain for the generous system of British Legislation, will, I am sure, give them a strong claim upon your Royal Highness's good opinion.

To uphold the weak, to put down lawless force, to lighten the chain of the slave, to sustain the honour of the British arms and British good faith; to promote the arts, sciences, and literature, to establish humane institutions, are duties of government which have been most conspicuously performed during your Royal Highness's regency. For a period of nearly five years, in which I have had the honour, as a servant of the East India Company, to preside over a mild and simple people, it has been my pride and my ambition to make known to them the justice and benevolence of my Prince, whose intentions towards them I could only fulfil by acting up to the principles of the Authority which I represented, and by doing every thing in my power to make them happy.

To those who judge that the right to express their sentiments requires no more than sincerity, or that their praise is of a value to overbalance the disrespect of offering it, I shall leave the usual language of dedications. Conscious that the assurances of respect and of loyal attachment can never be offered to your Royal Highness by

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Contents

  1. THE HISTORY OF JAVA.
  2. TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE REGENT.
  3. PREFACE
  4. ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR.
  5. INTRODUCTION.
  6. CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.
  7. CHAPTER I.
  8. CHAPTER II.
  9. CHAPTER III.
  10. CHAPTER IV.
  11. CHAPTER V.
  12. CHAPTER VI.
  13. CHAPTER VII.
  14. CHAPTER VIII.
  15. AN ANALYSIS OF THE BRÁTA YÚDHA, OR HOLY WAR; OR RATHER THE WAR OF WOE: AN EPIC POEM, IN THE KÁWI OR CLASSIC LANGUAGE OF
  16. CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.
  17. CHAPTER IX.
  18. CHAPTER X.
  19. CHAPTER XI.
  20. ACCOUNT OF THE SEVERAL PRINCIPAL DIVISIONS OF JAVA AND MADURA.
  21. APPENDICES.
  22. APPENDIX, A.
  23. APPENDIX B. JAPAN TRADE.
  24. APPENDIX C. TRANSLATION OF A MODERN VERSION OF THE SÚRIA ÁLEM
  25. APPENDIX, D. PROCLAMATION.
  26. APPENDIX E.​—No. I. A COMPARATIVE VOCABULARY OF THE MALAYU, JAVAN, MADURESE, BALI, AND LAMPUNG LANGUAGES.
  27. APPENDIX F. ACCOUNT OF CELEBES.
  28. APPENDIX G. NUMERALS ACCORDING TO THE CHANDRA SANGKALA.
  29. APPENDIX H. TRANSLATION OF THE MÁNEK MÁYA.
  30. APPENDIX I.

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