This archive is assembled from the pages of the Lost Book of Narad. It brings together historical documents, visual fragments, and speculative retellings.
The Amadabat Folio
Archive of Soltan Gjin Achmet, Prince from Amadabat
This folio follows the traces of Soltan Gjin Achmet, a figure who appears in European records in the early eighteenth century as an Indian student and the self-declared exiled Prince of Amadabat, from the kingdom of Gujarat.
He travelled across Europe through cities such as London, Vienna, and Paris. During the Age of Enlightenment, he passed through German universities including Helmstedt and Halle, where he studied philosophy and mathematics. He was later honoured with a medal in Hamburg, wrote petition letters to the King of Sweden and the city of Bremen, and then disappeared. What remains are the fragments gathered here.
Narad is the eternal archivist and a witness who gathers what history leaves scattered, forgotten, or unfinished. Through him, the story of the Prince from Amadabat becomes part of a larger search for incomplete histories.
A project by Jagrut Raval.
Supported by the Department of Culture and Media, Hamburg.