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The making of a Bureaucratic Elite: The Colonial Transformation of the Javanese Priyayi

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Admirers and critics of the Dutch Colonial regime alike conceded that one of its greatest strengths was its utilization of the Javanese aristocracy as a ruling elite. This book explains the nature and the values of that elite, and the ways in which its functions were gradually changed by Dutch pressure, Western education, and nationalist challenge.

Dr. Sutherland argues that the features many scholars label 'traditional' in the modern Indonesian polity in fact owe less to pre-colonial Java than they do to the moulding of the priyayi class by the Dutch.

Heather Sutherland has an M.A. in Asian Civilizations from the Australian National University, and a Ph.D. in History from Yale. She is currently ad Reader at the Free University in Amsterdam.

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Series Title

ASSA Southeast Asia Publications Series

Call Number

RD 354.59801 Sut t

Publisher

Singapore : Heinemann Educational Books., 1979

Collation

xx + 182 pp.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0708118151

Classification

354.59801

Content Type

digital text

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Edition

1st ed.

Subject(s)

Indonesian History
Colonialism
Java

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Statement of Responsibility

Heather Sutherland

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