Journalist Anand Ingalagi’s book El-Dorado, that detailed events at the Kolar Gold Fields between 1951 and present day, has been banned by the Government of India and all published copies burnt. However, a television news channel procures a copy and interviews him circling the events.
Ingalagi narrates that ore of gold was discovered by commissioned government officials in the southern part of India’s Mysore State (in present-day Kolar district, Karnataka) in 1951