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Acknowledgments

I wish to make grateful acknowledgment to the writers listed in the Bibliography at the end of this book and to a certain few individuals who have knowingly or unknowingly contributed most generously to my store of information about Bali: Ide Anak Agung Gde Agung dan Isteri, last Radja of Gianjar, and his wife, Vera, whose personal reminiscences and companionship have proved more revealing than any books; the late Professor I Gusti Gde Raka, the pioneer student of the Balinese economy, who patiently explained it to me; former Governor I. G. Bagoes Oka and Gedong Bagoes Oka, the mentors of Bali’s cultural conservationists; James Pandy, a connoisseur of Balinese life and art; A. Mörzer Bruyns, whose vivid recollections of prewar Bali should form the basis for his own memoirs; J. H. Ritman, who introduced me to the Dutch liberal point of view regarding Bali and other regions of Indonesia; G. A. Schotel, the doyen of the Western business community in Bali in the 1930s, who helped me with hard-to-get facts and figures.