The sweat of the king: State wealth vs. private royal wealth in pre-colonial Islamic Javanese Kingdoms

M. C. Ricklefs

doi:10.1163/22134379-17501020

The sweat of the king: State wealth vs. private royal wealth in pre-colonial Islamic Javanese Kingdoms

M. C. Ricklefs^*

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Eighteenth-century Javanese sources indicate that in pre-colonial Javanese kingdoms, a distinction was drawn between the monarch's personal wealth - called monies that were 'pure in intent, from the sweat of the king' - and the revenues of the kingdom as an institution. The distinction was probably of Islamic origin. It seems probable that only such personal royal wealth was acceptable for funding acts of personal religious merit.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	59-66
Number of pages	8
Journal	Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
Volume	175
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/22134379-17501020
Publication status	Published - 2019

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