Abstract
In the two decades from the coming of Marshal Daendels (1808-1811) to the Java War (1825-1830) Javanese society was turned on its head. New concepts of honour, status and racial superiority were introduced from a Europe transformed by the industrial and political revolutions. Military uniforms were now used to demarcate rank and status, service to the colonial state transcending nobility of birth. Through despoliation and military violence the indigenous courts of south-central Java were eviscerated while racial tensions led to an anti-Chinese pogrom which started the Java War. Two contemporary wartime diaries, both written by Belgians, illustrate the racialized world of the Netherlands East Indies and the ways in which colonial wars were conducted using native auxiliaries.
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