The Dutch Cemetery in Surat's Katargam area is one of the best-preserved 17th-century colonial cemeteries in India. It served the Dutch VOC (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) trading post that operated in Surat from the early 1600s until the Dutch withdrew from India in the late 18th century.
The tomb monuments are elaborately carved from local stone, with bas-relief portraits, coats of arms, and long Latin epitaphs marking merchants, factors, and company officials who died far from home in the service of the spice trade. The cemetery is relatively well-maintained given its obscurity and provides a quietly affecting reminder of the global commercial networks centred on Mughal-era Surat. The English Cemetery, in the same area, has similarly important tombs and is worth visiting alongside the Dutch one.