Who were Kalangs? Mention any 2 characteristics of this community?
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The Kalangs were a tribal community of Java.The Kalangs belonged to Java. They were a community of skilled forest cutters and shifting cultivators.
Their four characteristics are
(i) They were skilled forest cutters and shifting cultivators.
(ii) They had a great skill in building palaces.
(iii) They were so valuable that in 1755, when the Mataram kingdom of Java split, the 6000 Kalang families were equally divided between the two kingdoms.
(iv) When the Dutch gained control of Javanese forests in the 18th century they tried to make the Kalangs' work under them, to exploit timber of the forest. Though the Kalangs resisted by attacking the Dutch fort at Joava, the uprising was suppressed.
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