{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use Indian English|date=April 2025}} '''Georg Plebst''' (1823-1888)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Kamalakaran |first=Ajay |title=How a German missionary changed the way houses were roofed in western India |url=https://scroll.in/magazine/1042123/how-a-german-missionary-changed-the-way-houses-were-roofed-in-western-india |access-date=2023-01-25 |website=Scroll.in |date=24 January 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> was a German missionary who arrived India in 1851<ref name=":0" /> and established one of the first tile making factories known as '''The Common Wealth Trust Ltd''' or locally addressed as Basel Mission tile factory in 1860,<ref>{{harvnb|Giriappa|1994|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=k8j7tyiCAFkC&pg=PA61 61]|Ref=appa}}</ref> after they found large deposits of clay by the banks of the Gurupura and Nethravathi rivers. It was located near Morgan's Gate on the banks of the river Nethravathi.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2007/02/17/stories/2007021701030100.htm|title=Tiles for style|last=Babu|first=Savitha Suresh|date=2007-02-17|newspaper=The Hindu|accessdate=2009-01-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090110164144/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2007/02/17/stories/2007021701030100.htm|archive-date=2009-01-10|url-status=usurped}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2007/11/12/stories/2007111256740500.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071114060719/http://www.hindu.com/2007/11/12/stories/2007111256740500.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2007-11-14|title=Tiles are strong, industry is brittle |last=Belgaumkar|first=Govind D.|date=2007-11-12|newspaper=The Hindu|accessdate=2009-01-31}}</ref> He left India in 1868.<ref name=":0" />
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==References== *{{cite book |last=Giriappa |first=S. |year=1994 |title=Rural Industrialisation in Backward Areas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k8j7tyiCAFkC |publisher=Daya books |isbn=81-7035-125-1 |accessdate=2009-01-31 |ref=appa}}
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