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During the rest of the 19th century, the Dutch, using the rajas and other aristocrats as regents, took control over most of Bali, but their influence in the south remained limited.
Immediately, the Balinese rajas agreed to stop the plundering of wrecks, and to pay compensation for the 1841 incident, but it soon became clear that they had no intention of honoring the deal.
Arab trade with India had long since whetted the appetites of the Muslims; when Indian pirates plundered their ships off the coast of Sind in 711, it provoked the Governor of Chaldea (now Iraq) to send troops with 6,000 horses and 6,000 camels to conquer the Sind rajas and offer the alternative of converting to Islam or death.
The rajas once ruled most of Bali from their capitals at Karangasem (now Amlapura) and Klungkung.
When the dreadful scene was repeated by the Dewa Agung and his wives and followers in 1908 in front of the palace at Klungkung, the rajas’ resistance to Dutch rule was at an end.