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===Coal===
*There was coalmining in Cutch near the towns of Seesagud, and Mandaree. <ref>harshawardhan_bosham nimkhedkar [https://web.archive.org/web/20200330234826/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/7730525/ Coalmining in Cutch] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 18 April 2004, written in response to Nicholas Balmer [https://web.archive.org/web/20200329035600/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/7730665/ Coalmining in Cutch in 1827, Corporal Hay, Private W. Humphries, Ensign McCulloch Surgeon Gray IN], same Mailing List and date. Retrieved 29 March 2020, both now archived. </ref>
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20151017172847/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lead role in the history of coal mining in India'"] by Vikram Doctor, September 17, 2012 ''The Economic Times'', now an archived page. 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]]
