In Dholpur, by the palace

July 03, 2015 10:57

If Dholpur had an official animal, it had to be the donkey.

They are everywhere: this sleepy eastern Rajasthan city of 1.3 lakh has stray donkeys like other cities have street dogs.Some are pet donkeys, used for transport. Herds of them stand stoically inside buildings constructed in a Maru Gurjara-cum-Islamic style that house state institutions here, witnessing court proceedings and land registrations in a city yet to come out of its feudal moorings.

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