An archive looted, one Quran reportedly leftSourced
During the 1812 sack of Yogyakarta, records and instruments were taken too.
British forces looted court archives, manuscripts and gamelan instruments along with valuables. Accounts say just one Quran was left among the texts; many taken documents later entered British institutions.
An invasion can remove a society's records as well as its treasures.
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