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Coimbatore's Quiet Empire: The Tamil Nadu City That Produces Around 40% of India's Pump Sets

A GDDP of ₹1.52 lakh crore, 25,000-plus MSMEs, and a Ministry of MSME cluster study estimating the city supplies around 40% of India's pump sets. Coimbatore is India's most underrated industrial city — and it was built without a rupee of venture capital.

Bharat Tycoons Editorial7 min readAug 2026

City SpotlightSurat

The Surat Diamond Economy: How One Indian City Became the World's Polishing Hub

Around 90% of the world's rough diamonds are cut and polished in Surat. But in 2023-24, exports fell 27.5%. The city is navigating the most significant structural shift in its history — the rise of lab-grown diamonds.

Bharat Tycoons Editorial7 min readAug 2026

City SpotlightRajkot

Rajkot's Engineering Economy: Inside India's Largest Light-Engineering Cluster

It has no port, no tech campus, and no venture-capital ecosystem. What Rajkot has instead is 175-plus investment casting foundries, some 10,000 engineering units in the wider cluster, and export relationships with buyers in Europe and the Middle East.

Bharat Tycoons Editorial7 min readAug 2026