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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).
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.
Cakranegara (or just Cakra — remember that it is pronounced “Chakra”) grew up around the palace of the Balinese rajas.
The rajas once ruled most of Bali from their capitals at Karangasem (now Amlapura) and Klungkung.