𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐛𝐨𝐢: 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐦’𝐬 𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐬𝐢𝐚’𝐬 𝐎𝐢𝐥 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 Where was Asia's first oil well dug? In Assam, at Digboi. Who dug it? Assamese workers—yes, it was the Assamese. In 1866, foreign supervisors encouraged the local boys with shouts of "Dig, boy, dig!" Despite lacking modern machinery, the hard-working Assamese laborers manually extracted oil from underground for the first time—not just in India but in all of Asia. The name "Digboi" itself came from this rallying cry a