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DON'T MENTION THE CORPSES: THE ERASURE OF VIOLENCE IN
COLONIAL WRITINGS ON SOUTHEAST ASIA
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History may be written by the victors, but what they conveniently leave out can be more telling. Farish Noor reminds us of the violent side of
colonial conquest.
"All conquest literature seeks to explain to the conquerors 'why we are here'."1
- Robert Bartlett, The Making of Europe (1993)
G The court of the Sultan of Borneo, with the audience chamber filled with natives, all well dressed and armed. The sultan