July. The golden palace of the king has totally burned down. The bodies of the dead Mughals are floating in the moat. The king has decided to kill every person who has arrived in Arakan in the retinue of Xxxx Xxxxx, whether they had anything to do with the fire or not.86 It is estimated that it will take more than 10 years to rebuild the splendid golden palace. The diary of the riots following the attempted coup d’état by Mughal soldiers from Xxxx Xxxxx’x retinue confirms tensions between on the one hand Arakanese and on the other hand Muslims and Bengalis had increased to reach boiling point. The implication of Buddhist monks in these riots could indicate that these tensions also spanned the religious divide between Muslim Bengalis and Buddhist Arakanese. The mobs that were seen coming down the river targeted Muslim and Bengali settlements. The Dutch factory was not attacked during these riots, which seems to confirm the riots were not aimed at foreigners in general.
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