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===Coal===
*India List post There was coalmining in Cutch near the towns of Seesagud, and Mandaree. <ref>harshawardhan_bosham nimkhedkar [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2004-04/1082306659 Coalmining in Cutch] near the towns of Seesagud, and Mandaree''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 18 April 2004. Retrieved 16 August 2017.</ref>
*[http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-09-17/news/33902536_1_coal-fires-jharkhand-minerals '"Dwarkanath Tagore: Rabindranath's grandfather played lead role in the history of coal mining in India'"] by Vikram Doctor, September 17, 2012 ''The Economic Times''. The first application to mine coal was made in 1770. Includes reference to mine in [[Burdwan]] at Raniganj, at Naraincoory, close to Raniganj, at Munglepore, where there were indigo plantations, and in [[Assam]]
*[http://cires.colorado.edu/~bilham/Oldham.htm Richard Dixon Oldham 1858-1936], the first Director of the Geological Survey of India from Roger Bilham’s [http://cires.colorado.edu/~bilham Earthquakes and Tectonic Plate motions]
*[http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Library-and-Information-Services/Exhibitions/Sir-Lewis-Leigh-Fermors-Diary-Life-in-Colonial-India "Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor's Diary: Life in Colonial India"] The Geological Society. Sir Lewis joined the Geological Survey of India in 1902, and was the Director officially 1932-1935, and unofficially for some years earlier. He was the father of well known travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor. Retrieved 14 August 2014
*[https://scroll.in/magazine/845947/why-palaeolithic-man-avoided-the-western-ghats-and-other-discoveries-by-an-accidental-archaeologist "Why Palaeolithic man avoided the Western Ghats, and other discoveries by an accidental archaeologist"] by Vinita Govindarajan Aug 10, 2017. scroll.in. Robert Bruce Foote was a geologist and archaeologist and "the father of Indian prehistory".
===Historical books online===
====General====
*''A Manual of the Geology of India''
**First edition 1879, and later: [https://archive.org/details/manualofgeologyo01geol ''Volume I: Peninsular Area''] by H B Medlicott and W T Blanford 1879; [https://archive.org/details/cu31924003914037 ''Volume II: Extra-Peninsular Area''] by H B Medlicott and W T Blanford 1879; [http://www.archive.org/stream/amanualgeologyi00mallgoog#page/n6/mode/2up ''Part 3. Economic Geology''] by V. Ball. 1881 [http://www.archive.org/stream/amanualgeologyi00mallgoog#page/n14/mode/2up Contents] Includes sections on Diamonds, Gold etc etc All Archive.org; [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/212425 ''Part 4 Minerology: Mainly Non-Economic''] by FR Mallet 1887. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
**Second edition 1893 and later. [https://archive.org/details/amanualgeologyi00blangoog ''A Manual of the Geology of India: Stratigraphical and Structural Geology''] 2nd edition revised and largely rewritten by R D Oldham 1893 Archive.org. [This is probably a revision of Parts 1 and 2, published 1879]; [http://www.dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/212424 ''A Manual of the Geology of India : Economic Geology by the late V. Ball. Pt.1, Corundum''] by T.H. Holland. 1898. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. A revision, in separate parts, of Part 3 of ''A Manual of the Geology of India.''**Third edition, revised and largely re written by Sir Edwin H Pascoe, under the title ''A Manual of the Geology of India and Burma'', published c 1950-1964. [http://www.dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/234051 Volume I], [http://www.dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/234052 Volume II], [http://www.dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/233375 Volume III]. Pdf downloads, Digital Library of India.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/bibliographyofin00oldhrich#page/n3/mode/2up ''A Bibliography of Indian Geology being a list of books and papers, relating to the geology of British India and adjoining countries, published previous to the end of A.D. 1887''] by R. D. Oldham 1888 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/p1abibliographyo00indiuoft#page/n5/mode/2up ''A Bibliography of Indian Geology and Physical Geography'' (Part 1A)] by T.H.D. La Touche 1917 Archive.org. Incorporates Oldham’s listings. Other parts of the Bibliography may be downloaded as [http://www.dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/discover?filtertype_1=title&filter_relational_operator_1=contains&filter_1=Bibliography&filtertype_2=title&filter_relational_operator_2=contains&filter_2=Indian+&filtertype_3=title&filter_relational_operator_3=contains&filter_3=Geology&submit_apply_filter=&query= pdf files from the Digital Library of India].
*''Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India'' and ''Records of the Geological Survey of India'' are available on the websites Archive.org and the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]]. Readers in North America may be able to also access them on Google Books. For some ''Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India'' in respect of earthquakes, refer the pages on earthquakes [[Mining industry#Related articles|above]]
**Contents of the volumes of ''Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India'' to 1910, and ''Records of the Geological Survey Of India'' to 1912. Center for Research Libraries.[https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:fJ7iVC6HawoJ:dds.crl.edu/loadStream.asp?iid%3D11404+Quetta+earthquake+%22Geological+Survey+of+India%22&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjqmlnnuKW2qTvR1lvtKlBXB49Ul-a4O7h1yBJfB93mD4M1C7FjpsebbO8VGAK2zzAv5g5sqZipoEr2N7ezmcAKi5PxpPn59wv1pyUaVX-XTEZPVThrf_SXDb49G7282QIxgcdl&sig=AHIEtbRaa6z8J8GZguWlJgMKBeMTcEAnKw html version], [http://dds.crl.edu/loadStream.asp?iid=11404 pdf]
*''Transactions of the Mining and Geological Institute of India'' Archive.org. Catalogued as ''Transactions''. From Volume I for 1906.
:[https://archive.org/details/transactions01mini 1906: I], [https://archive.org/stream/transactions01mini#page/n309/mode/2up 1907: II], [https://archive.org/stream/transactions01mini#page/n501/mode/2up 1908: III]. [https://archive.org/details/transactions04mini 1909: IV], [https://archive.org/stream/transactions04mini#page/n429/mode/2up 1910: V], [https://archive.org/details/transactions06mini 1911: VI], [https://archive.org/stream/transactions06mini#page/n357/mode/2up 1912: VII],[https://archive.org/stream/transactions06mini#page/n757/mode/2up 1913: VIII], [https://archive.org/details/p1transactions09mini 1914, June: IX Part 1], [https://archive.org/details/p1transactions10mini 1915, June: X, Part 1], [https://archive.org/details/transactions11mini 1916 XI], [https://archive.org/stream/transactions11mini#page/n309/mode/2up 1917: XII], [https://archive.org/stream/transactions11mini#page/n499/mode/2up 1918: XIII], [https://archive.org/stream/transactions11mini#page/n655/mode/2up 1919: XIV], [https://archive.org/stream/transactions11mini#page/n831/mode/2up 1920: XV], [https://archive.org/details/p1transactions16mini 1921, July: XVI Part 1], [https://archive.org/details/p2transactions16mini 1922, February: XVI Part 2], [https://archive.org/details/p1transactions17mini 1922, May: XVII Part 1].
*''Science and the Changing Environment in India 1780-1920: A Guide to Sources in the India Office Records'' by Richard Axelby and Savithri Preetha Nair 2009. For a review of this book see [[Research guides reading list]]. The guide is arranged in eleven chapters including one in respect of geology. Section A is "Mineral Resources" and the introduction to this reads: "Of the minerals which detail the discovery and extraction of the mineral resources of India, those on coal and iron are arranged geographically. There follows lists of sources for other minerals and metals, including copper, diamonds and precious stones, gold, lead, limestone, oil, stone, shale and slate, tin , silver, saltpetre, borax and antimony. Further reports on the mineral resources of India are in the series of publications of the Geological Survey of India. " This chapter is eleven pages long and covers a lot of references.
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