Conflicts within the Prijaji World of the Parahyangan in West java 1914 - 1927

In this local historical study of a development of a particular region in Indonesia - the Parahyangan Residency in Java - which deflected from the mainstream of national developments in Indonesia in the early twentieth century, the writer's theme is that the prijajis (indigenous administrative officials who formed and important leadership elite) were caught in the throes of rapid change initiated both from within and without.