In this richly illustrated edition, researcher and India specialist Bauke van der Pol brings together all this VOC heritage in India for the first time. As a guide, he leads the reader past fortresses, country houses, warehouses, facto rows and beautiful cemeteries with unique grave monuments. Using old images and contemporary photographs, he shows what the Dutch fortresses looked like and what can still be found in the Indian landscape today. He explains how the Dutch ended up in the different regions of India and explains how their relationship was with maharajahs and other Indian rulers. He describes the precious merchandise that the Dutch brought so far from home and shows how contemporary Indians deal with the traces that these strangers left in their country.