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The Kalangs of Java were a community of skilled forest cutters and shifting cultivators. They were so valuable that in 1755 when the Mataram kingdom of Java split, the 6,000 Kalang families were equally divided between the two kingdoms. Without their expertise it would have been difficult to harvest teak and for the kings to build their palaces. When the Dutch began to gain control over the forests in the eighteenth century, they tried to make the Kalangs work under them. In 1770, the Kalangs resisted by attacking a Dutch fort at Joana, but the uprising was suppressed.

In how many kingdoms the Kalang families were divided after the Java split?

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Kalang families were equally divided in two kingdoms after the Java split. There was only one monarchy, known as the Mataram kingdom, there before 1755. Between the 16th and 18th centuries, when the Dutch gained control of Indonesia, it was a sizable kingdom in Java.
The Mataram kingdom did, however, split in 1755. Because of their expertise in clearing forests, kalangs were indispensable to the rulers, so they divided them.

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