Abstract
O NE OF THE SIGNIFICANT CONSEQUENCES of the nationalist revolutions in Africa, the Near East and Asia in our time is the desire to circumscribe and give substance to so-called national cultures, the heritage of autochthonous ways and institutions that antedate the colonial era. With the gaining of national freedom has come a new emphasis on the ethos of the new citizenry, and an attempt to see the development of the nation from a vantage point different from that occupied by the colonial administrator. Nationhood is believed to require community of experience, a sharing of values and desired modes of behavior. Thus new nations need to rewrite their history. According to a recent news dispatch from Djokjakarta, in the province of Central Java:
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