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Balinese babad as historical sources; A reinterpretation of the fall of Gèlgèl

1991; Brill; Volume: 147; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1163/22134379-90003188

2213-4379

Helen Creese,

Asian Studies and History

Towards the end of the seventeenth century, the centralized Balinese kingdom of G?lg?l, which according to Balinese tradition had held sway since the fourteenth century, was overthrown. It was gradually replaced in the course of the eighteenth century by a number of smaller, independent kingdoms. This period of Balinese history, which saw the end of the old political order and the beginning of a new one, has received little attention from scholars. The only detailed study of Bali in the period before 1700 has been Berg's investigation of the history of the Balinese kingdom of G?lg?l in his dissertation De Middeljavaansche Historische Traditie (1927). In his reconstruction of the rise and fall of G?lg?l, Berg made use of both Dutch and Balinese sources. However, he relied on the Balinese accounts only where no Dutch sources were available, that is, for the period before 1600. For the history of seventeenth-century G?lg?l, he accepted only those parts of the Balinese writings that could be verified in Dutch sources and dismissed any conflicting evidence from the Balinese reports as un reliable.