An exhaustive structural analysis was carried out on three Indian coals (ranging from sub-bituminous to high volatile bituminous coal) using a range of advanced characterization tools. Detailed investigations were carried out using UV-Visible spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy coupled energy dispersive spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The X-ray and Raman peaks were deconvoluted and analyzed in details. Coal crystallites possess turbostratic structure, whose crystallite diameter and height increase with rank. The H/C ratio plotted against aromaticity exhibited a decreasing trend, confirming the graphitization of coal upon leaching. It is also found that, with the increase of coal rank, the dependency of I 20 /I 26 on L a is saturated, due to the increase in average size of sp 2 nanoclusters. In Raman spectra, the observed G peak (1585 cm -1 ) and the D2 band arises from graphitic lattices. In IR spectrum, two distinct peaks at 2850 and 2920 cm -1 are attributed to the symmetric and asymmetric -CH 2 stretching vibrations. The intense peak at *1620 cm -1 , is either attributed to the aromatic ring stretching of C=C nucleus.