Coal dust in the Tagore album

For a product that India possesses in abundance and which, as we have seen recently, has abundant power to cause political chaos, the actual history of coal mining in the subcontinent is relatively recent. DP Jha of the Indian School of Mines in Dhanbad, in a paper on this subject, points out that there is no definite Sanskrit name for mined coal and that while Kautilya's Arthashastra specifically...

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