List of Illustrations Preface1: Power and Knowledge 1: Introduction 2: Colonial Representations of Klungkung 3: The View from Klungkung Power and the Invisible World 4: Making History: Balinese and Colonial Practices of Knowing 5: The Badad Dalem: The Sources of Klungkung's Power2: The Colonial Encounter 6: Klungkung and the Dutch, 1840-1849: Encounters with Hegemony 7: The Kusamba War 8: The Dutch and Klungkung, 1849-1908: Relations of Knowledge and Power 9: The Destruction of the World 10: "Finishing" 11: The Empty LandEpilogue: A Reinvented KlungkungAppendix: GenealogiesGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex
In 1908, the ruler of the Balinese realm of Klungkung and over 100 members of his family and court were massacred when they marched deliberately into the fire of the Dutch colonial army. This work examines the question of what their action meant and its significance in contemporary Klungkung.