Give a brief description about the woodcutter community of Java the Kalangs

CBSE Class 9 CBSE Class 9 Social Science
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Give a brief description about the woodcutter community of Java the Kalangs.
Answer:

  • The Kalangs of Java were skilled forest cutters and they practised shifting cultivation.
  • They were so valuable that when the kingdom of Java split, the Kalang families were equally divided between two kingdoms.
  • Without them, it was difficult to harvest teak and build kings’ palaces.
  • The Dutch tried to make the Kalangs work under them.
  • In 1770, the Kalangs resisted by attacking a Dutch fort but they were suppressed.