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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.
Bali’s contact with the Dutch was restricted to providing slaves — mainly Balinese who had broken the rajas’ laws or priests’ taboos — and soldiers for the army of the United Dutch East Indies Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, or VOC).
Some of the most impressive exhibits are the photographs of the rajas and their families, dating from before 1908, the year of the puputan which took place in the open space in front of the palace and marked the end of effective resistance to the Dutch (see page 19).
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.