Palembang in 1811 and 1812

I t is now one hundred years since Baud published in the first volume J-. of this journal his article under the above title charging Raffles with the responsibility of the massacre of the Dutch garrison at Palembang in 1811 1 ).For a century Baud's argument has been accepted by Dutch colonial historians, and has coloured considerably their interpretations of Raffles and his administration of Java 2 ).Baud's charges have not only been a stick in the hands of the conservatives to beat Raffles, but have also proved to be a source of embarrassment to the liberals who were prepared to admire his principles of colonial administration.With few exceptions the outline of Raffles' character drawn by Baud a century ago has remained intact in Dutch historiography 8 ).Recently the controversy surrounding the Palembang massacre was reopened with the publication of an English translation of a letter which Raffles sent to the Sultan Badr'uddin, and which was not published by Baud 4 ).The late C. E. Wurtzburg argued on the basis of this new letter that the sending of arms to Badr'uddin 5 ) was

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