De VOC in India: Een reis langs Nederlands erfgoed in Gujarat, Malabar, Coromandel en Bengalen

The East India Company is often associated with Indonesia, China and Japan. But in India, covered an area the VOC, VOC greater than all other areas in Asia combined. The Company was active from 1604 to 1795 in India. Dutch trade relationship with India is much older than that, for example, Australia or the U.S.. Yet far from being widely known that around the entire coastline from Surat to Calcutta, Dutch remains of 17th and 18th centuries can be found.
In this richly illustrated book brings India researcher and specialist Bauke van der Pol for the first time all this VOC heritage in India together. As a guide, he leads the reader through fortresses, country houses, warehouses, factories and beautiful cemeteries with unique monuments. Using old photographs and contemporary images, he shows how the Dutch forts looked like and what today can be found in the Indian landscape. He tells how the Dutch in the different regions of India sites, and explains how their relationship was with Maharajas and other Indian leaders. He describes the precious commodity that the Dutch brought so far from home and shows how contemporary Indians deal with the traces of these foreigners in their country left behind.