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A Visit to Java: With an Account of the Founding of Singapore
William Basil Worsfold (1858-1939), who also wrote under the pseudonym Godfrey Waytemore, was a British author, historian, barrister and lecturer. His works include: A Visit to Java with an Account of the Founding of Singapore (1893), The Redemption of Egypt (1899), Judgment in Literature (1901), The Principles of Criticism: An Introduction to the Study of Literature (1902), Lord Milner's Work in South Africa (1906), The Union of South Africa (1912), The Reconstruction of the New Colonies Under Lord Milner (1913), The Future of Egypt (c1914), The Empire on the Anvil (1916), The War and Social Reform (1919), Sir Bartle Frere: A Footnote to the History of the British Empire (1923) and The Profiteer: A Tale of the Home Front (1932).
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172 pages, Paperback
First published December 5, 2008
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February 21, 2021- not long after the time of Christ the Hindus came to Java, the figure of Saka, 'variously termed warrior, priest, and god, to whom is attributed the introduction of the arts of civilization'
- the Brahmins ruled for over a millennium before Islam usurped them as the predominant religion in the 16th century. At around the same time the Europeans first visited, the Portuguese and the Dutch, and in the late 18th century the Dutch East India Company took adminstrative control of the island
- the island is long and thin, but has a greater land mass than Britain, and in 1892 the population was 23 million, more than Britain (current it is nearly 150 million, doubling in the last fifty years
- the natives he described as 'simple and refined'
- the parents of both partners are not invited to the wedding ceremony. Divorce is an easy matter; if a couple decide that hey don't want to be together anymore they simply part.
- sugar, cinchona and of course coffee. He visited a plantation.
- wayang, a puppet show the natives would watch for hours. The puppets are grotesque distortions of human shape, shown only as shadows behind a screen. N Javanese theatre the actors are marked and speechless, the dalang (manager) recites the dialogue.
- Sir Thomas Raffles, 1811-16 during the Napoleonic wars, then founded Singapore
- Peter Elberfeld led a rebellion against the Dutch, had his limbs tied to horses
- the Brahmins ruled for over a millennium before Islam usurped them as the predominant religion in the 16th century. At around the same time the Europeans first visited, the Portuguese and the Dutch, and in the late 18th century the Dutch East India Company took adminstrative control of the island
- the island is long and thin, but has a greater land mass than Britain, and in 1892 the population was 23 million, more than Britain (current it is nearly 150 million, doubling in the last fifty years
- the natives he described as 'simple and refined'
- the parents of both partners are not invited to the wedding ceremony. Divorce is an easy matter; if a couple decide that hey don't want to be together anymore they simply part.
- sugar, cinchona and of course coffee. He visited a plantation.
- wayang, a puppet show the natives would watch for hours. The puppets are grotesque distortions of human shape, shown only as shadows behind a screen. N Javanese theatre the actors are marked and speechless, the dalang (manager) recites the dialogue.
- Sir Thomas Raffles, 1811-16 during the Napoleonic wars, then founded Singapore
- Peter Elberfeld led a rebellion against the Dutch, had his limbs tied to horses
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