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"With selections including scholarly pieces, manifestoes, interviews, speeches, and inscriptions, this volume captures the long sweep of the Indonesian archipelago's history while emphasizing its spectacular diversity. This is a "Reader" that deserves to be read."--Rudof Mrazek, University of Michigan

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Contents

Acknowledgments.................................................................................................ixIntroduction....................................................................................................1I Early Histories...............................................................................................13The Kutei Inscriptions in Borneo, Anonymous.....................................................................17The Shadow of India, Upendra Thakur.............................................................................20The Genesis of Indonesian Archaeology, R. P. Soejono............................................................27Javanese Inscriptions, Himansu Bhusan Sarkar....................................................................34What Was Srivijaya? George Coeds...............................................................................37Srivijaya Revisited, Michel Jacq-Hergoualc'h....................................................................44Arab Navigation in the Archipelago, G. R. Tibbetts..............................................................48Viewing the Borobudur, Jan Poortenaar...........................................................................54In Praise of Prambanan..........................................................................................56The Nagarakrtagama, Mpu Prapaca................................................................................58Images Arjuna and Kresna........................................................................................61II Early Modern Histories.......................................................................................63Ibn Battuta at Pasai, Ibn Battuta...............................................................................67Chinese Muslims in Java, H. J. de Graaf and Th. F. Pigeaud......................................................70Portuguese Sources on Products and the Monsoons, Robert Nicholl.................................................75The First Dutch Voyage to the Indies, 1596, Willem Lodewijcksz..................................................80The Web of Batik................................................................................................85An Englishman in Banten, Edmund Scott...........................................................................87A "Harem" in Aceh...............................................................................................92Contract with Banjarmasin, Anonymous............................................................................94General Missives of the voc, Anonymous..........................................................................96Negara: The Theatre State in Bali, Clifford Geertz..............................................................99III Cultures in Collision.......................................................................................105The Tuhfat al-Nafis, Raja Ali al-Haji Riau......................................................................109The Hikayat Abdullah, Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munshi...........................................................113The La Galigo as Bugis History, Sirtjo Koolhof..................................................................115The Babad Dipanegara in Java, Peter Carey.......................................................................121Sasak Literature of Lombok, Geoffrey Marrison...................................................................125Max Havelaar, Multatuli.........................................................................................128A Naturalist Climbs a Mountain, Alfred Russel Wallace...........................................................133Surveilling the Arabs, Consulate Officials......................................................................137A Pioneer of Women's Rights, Raden Ajeng Kartini................................................................140Chinese Coolies to Sumatra, William Pickering...................................................................146IV Through Travelers' Eyes......................................................................................149Visiting Banjarmasin, Daniel Beekman............................................................................153The Lure of Spice in the Moluccas...............................................................................159An Englishman in New Guinea, Thomas Forrest.....................................................................161Letters from Chinese Merchants to Batavia, Leonard Bluss.......................................................165Pirates on the Java Sea, George Earl............................................................................173Colonial Geography in Kei and Flores, C. M. Kan.................................................................177Bugis Ships of Sulawesi.........................................................................................179Traversing the Interior of Palembang, H. H. van Kol.............................................................181The Zoology of the Indies, L. F. de Beaufort....................................................................184The Indonesian Hajj in Colonial Times...........................................................................190V High Colonial Indies..........................................................................................193Chinese Traders in the Villages, M. R. Fernando and David Bulbeck...............................................197Is Opium a Genuine Evil? J. Groneman............................................................................202River Travel in the Padang Uplands, Anonymous...................................................................207Ethnographic Notes on Sumba, J. J. van Alphen...................................................................211Advice on Islam, C. Snouck Hurgronje............................................................................214Marriage in Minahasa, Anonymous.................................................................................218Shooting a Tiger, Anonymous.....................................................................................224The Endless War in Aceh, Aceh Documentation Center..............................................................228Beriberi: Disease among the Troops..............................................................................234Protestant Missions in the Indies, Baron van Boetzelaer van Dubbeldam...........................................236The Oceanography of the Archipelago, G. F. Tydeman..............................................................241VI The Last Decades of the Indies...............................................................................245Java's Railways, S. A. Reitsma..................................................................................249The Eruption of Krakatoa, R. A. van Sandick.....................................................................252Colonizing Central Sulawesi, Joost Cot.........................................................................256The Welfare on Java and Madura, Dutch East Indies Welfare Committee.............................................260The Balinese Puputan, Jhr. H. M. Van Weede......................................................................262The Sarekat Islam Congress, 1916, O. S. Tjokroaminoto...........................................................265The Youth Oath,...