Photographer Arko Datto reinterprets British Academy Book Prize-winning book Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das, in a special commission by the British Academy in partnership with Panos Pictures
Historic kabutarkhana/pigeon home illuminated by a passing motorcycle in the historic town of Rander beside Surat. Photograph: Arko Datto/for British Academy in partnership with Panos Pictures
Ancient tomb in Burhanpur. Datto, who lives in Kolkata, spent a month travelling across India to many of the locations that are central to the book, capturing the places that Nandini Das writes about, discovered through the painstaking examination of centuries-old records.Watchtower ruins in Mandu.
“While some sites are well preserved by the Archeological Survey of India , many among these have been swallowed up by relentless urban expansion.” “Burhanpur and Mandu have been relegated to the margins, whilst Ajmer, Surat and Agra live on as fast-growing yet tier two cities in present day India.”Daily life around the historical city walls of Surat. Here a half buried archway lies in disrepair amidst garbage thrown from nearby apartment buildings.Sangeen Darwaza, one of the entry ways into the Hari Parbat Fort.
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