Balinese Raja in Thomas Stamford Raffes The History of Java 1817

''The History of Java'' is a book written by Sir

Thomas Stamford Raffles Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (5 July 1781 – 5 July 1826) was a British statesman who served as the Lieutenant-Governor of the Dutch East Indies between 1811 and 1816, and Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen between 1818 and 1824. He is ...

, and published in 1817. It describes the history of the island of

Java Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's List ...

from ancient times. It was reprinted from a digital master by the Cambridge University Press in 2010.

Gallery

File:Raffles Varieties of the Javan Kris.png, Varieties of Javanese keris. File:Raffles Javan Weapons 1.png, Weapons of Java:

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s, maces, bow and arrows, blowpipe, sling. File:Raffles Javan Weapons 2.png, Weapon of Java: Keris. File:Raffles Javan Weapons 3.png, Short swords, shields, and a

matchlock A matchlock or firelock is a historical type of firearm wherein the gunpowder is ignited by a burning piece of rope that is touched to the gunpowder by a mechanism that the musketeer activates by pulling a lever or trigger with his finger. Before ...

gun. File:Raffles Javan Weapons and Standards.png, Javanese weapons and standards.

References

External links

''The History of Java''
by Sir Stamford Raffles at the Internet Archive.
''The History of Java''
restored ebook at Google Books. History books about Indonesia 1817 non-fiction books {{indonesia-hist-book-stub