Story of Bali, Indonesia

Thus tile ground would have been cpared for a new centre of culture. However this ulay be; the fact remains thpt the development of Indian Culture (and here we are concerned only with Indonesia) was bound tip with the changing fortunes of the most powerful indigenotis princely dynasties. Although the first lar.fc Indonesian kingdom (tile kingdom of Shrividjaya) came into being in Sumatra towards the end Of tile 7th century, and a centre of Buddhist learning appeared in Palembang, it is chiefly Java which deserves Our attention.

In the first centuries of the Christian era sea-borne trade began to develop between the countries of southern and eastern Asia. In many places India commercial settlements sprang up: at first along the coast of Further India (e.g. Funan and Champa), and later also in the Indian commercial Malayan peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra and Java. These settlements presumably generated little in the way o(cultural stimulus, and few significant Indian cultural values will have been transmitted by tile first traders and settlers. But later there developed a number of centres of political power in these areas, and Indian culture flourished there.

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