Shipping And Shipbuilding Industry In India Since 1947

This book elucidates the potential of the shipbuilding industry for initiating economic development, which eventually leads to enhancing the prosperity of a nation. This is explained by intrinsically linking the macroeconomics of the nation with the microeconomics of the shipbuilding industry. The economic and commercial spin offs by the shipyard to the various industries have been analysed and calculated. An attempt has been made to trace the illustrious past of Indian shipbuilding from the Bronze Age, through the ancient kingdom period, to the present times, in the backdrop of Indian maritime history. The operational requirement of commercial as well as defence shipbuilding has been analysed to assess the available potential market space for the Indian shipbuilding industry. Lessons from history help to formulate future strategies. In pursuit of this, the book investigates the global trends in commercial shipbuilding since the industrial revolution period to date; the success stories of leading shipbuilding nations viz.UK, USA, Japan, Korea and China have been analysed. The benefits accrued by these nations through shipbuilding have been summarised. The strategies adopted by each of these countries to reach the pinnacle in shipbuilding have been examined and the salient features relevant for India have been identified. Productivity measurement in shipbuilding has been examined and the problems with the current system have been highlighted, along with solutions. This book suggests the usage of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), a mathematical linear programming technique, as an appropriate tool to measure total productivity as well as profitability. The various ways of improving profitability in shipbuilding, by way of cost-cutting techniques, along with some Indian case studies have been explained in the book. Keeping the ‘Indian Maritime Agenda 2010-2020’ vision document in the backdrop, a strategic appreciation of the Indian shipbuilding industry has been undertaken using the SWOT, the Matrix and the Scenario analyses. Based on these analyses, strategies have been formulated for all the stakeholders who can influence the Indian shipbuilding industry. The book then identifies the need for an alchemist leader, who can harmonise all the stakeholders and thereby propel the Indian shipbuilding industry towards achieving the long-term goal of creating a prosperous India.

Explores the types of ships, methods of navigation and modes of water-borne trade in the Indian Ocean region and the way they affected the development of distinctive settlements against a changing but strong sense of regional identity.

The Book IsAn Outcome Of Eight Long Years Of Fieldwork Carried Out Under The Support Of Csir, Government Of India. As The Tradition Of Ship Building Is Vanishing Fastly, The ExistingOral Tradition Has Been Brought In Records. The Historical Accounts On The EvolutionarySignificance Of The Different Ship Building Technologies Form Different States And Communities, The Literary Evidences From 3Rd Century B.C And Dealing With The Different Kinds Of Traditional Sea Going Vessels, Their Merits And Demerits, The RawMaterials And The Different Techniques Practiced From The Primitive To Advanced StageHave Been Given. The Volume Also Includes The Existing Tradition Of Ship Building AmongThe Tribes Of Andaman And Nicobar Islands And Deals In Different Chapters The Traditional Boat Building As Gleaned From The Archaeological Literary Resources: Trational Crafts Of India: Its Classification And Distribution; Raw Materials; Common BoatBuilding Stages; Building Techniques Of Traditional Crafts; Sails And Rigs; Parts Of Traditional Crafts Of India And Their Maintenance And Management. Along With An Elaborate Bibliography A Glossary Of Local Names In Different Coastal Languages AndTheir Equivalents In English In Also Given. Most Of The Information Belongs To Rare Sources. The Book Will Be Of Great Use To Historians, Archaeologists, Maritime Scien-Tists, Anthropologists, Ethnographers And Scholars Of Ancient Industries And SciencesForeward By Lotika Varadarajan, Historian, Traditional Knowledge Systems AndTechnologies

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... BOOK I.--PART II. CHAPTER I. The Pre-mauryan Per1od. Both Brahminical and Buddhistic texts are thus replete with references to the sea-borne trade of India that directly and indirectly demonstrate the existence and development of a national shipping and shipbuilding. It is now necessary to narrate the facts of that trade, and for this we shall have to draw upon all sorts of evidence, literary, inscriptional, and numismatic, and both Indian and foreign. For India alone has not the monopoly of these evidences; and if she really had commercial connection with the outside world it is natural, and in fact necessary, that they be also supplied by those countries with which she carried on her intercourse, thus confirming those conclusions that are reached by-a study of the purely Indian evidences. And so do we find, as a matter of fact, in various foreign works abundant allusions to India's commerce, arts, and manufactures, indicating the glorious position she once occupied and for long maintained as the Queen of the Eastern Seas. Indeed, all the evidences available will clearly show that for full thirty centuries India stood out as the very heart of the commercial world, cultivating trade relations successively with the Phoenicians, Jews, Assyrians, Greeks, Egyptians, and Romans in ancient times, and Turks, Venetians, Portuguese, Dutch, and English in modern times. A genial climate and a fertile soil, coupled with the industry and frugality of the Indian people, rendered them virtually independent of foreign nations in respect of the necessaries of life, while their secondary wants were few. Of the latter, tin, lead, glass, amber, steel for arms, and perhaps coral and to a small extent medicinal drugs, were all that India had need to import...