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Foundation Stone Laying Ceremony of The Scindia Co’s Shipyard at Gandhigram Vizagapatam by Babu Rajendra Prasad on Saturday the 21st June 1941

1941

The shipbuilders of the Port of London took the lead in raising the cry of alarm; they dclared that their business was on the point of ruin and that the families of all the shipwrights in England were certain to be reduced to starvation." The Court of Directors writing from the East India House on 27th June 1801 to the House of Lords used an argument as novel and strange as it is incidenta [...] The Jats of Sind the Nakhwas of Cutch the Ghogharies of Kathiawar the Kolis of Gujarat the Mahrattas from Alibag and Malwan the Ayyaras the Doms and hosts of other sefairing people throughout the vast coastline of India doggedly kept on a fight against the East India Co. [...] The fact hoever remains that there were hundreds of skilled men as great as the Wadias throughout the 5 000 mile coastline of India and but for the fact that the Wadias happened to serve the interests of the East India Company even the name of the Wadias might have been consigned to the same oblivion as are the names of the other great shipbuilders of the period. [...] The severe rate wars which the Scindia Company had to face from the B. I. in the initial years of its existence the absence of support and encouragement for the development of national industries — not to speak of a policy of frequent hindrance and hostility — on the part of the Government of the land and the deep depression in the world of shipping which followed during those years made it impos [...] It was due to the efforts of the Scindia Company that the Training Ship Dufferin " for training Indian officers and engineers was established in Bombay and the Company's Chairman and General Manager who have been on the Governing Body of the Training Ship have throughout taken a keen and continuous interest in the management and progress of this Ship and in the employment and the welfare of the c

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Frontmatter
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Indian Shipbuilding — a Forgotten Chapter in India’s Maritime History
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First Modern Indian Shipbuilding Yard. New enterprise of the Scindia Co. at Vizagapatam
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Scindia Steam Navigation Company a Brief Retrospect
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What the Country Demands
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How the Government Respond
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Compare and Contrast:This Picture and That
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World Tonnage Chart: India’s position therein
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Indian Coastal Trade Cargo Carried by Indian & Non-Indian Shipping Companies
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A brief Resume of the Proceedings of the ceremony of the Laying of the Foundation Stone of the Shipbuilding Yard of the Scindia Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. at Vizagaputam on Saturday the 21st June 1941
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Message of Good Wishes Dated the 20Th June 1941 from the Hon’ble Mr. Maung Saw Premier of Burma to the Chairman Scindia Steam Navigation Co. Ltd
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Messages from National leaders Prime Ministers Business Magnates Shippers and Public Men
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Speech delivered by Mr. Walchand Hirachand Chairman the Scindia Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. while requesting Syt. Babu Rajendra Prasad to bless the Company’s Shipbuilding Yard at Vizagapatam on the 21st June 1941 at 5-30 P. M. (S. T.)
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Speech delivered by Babu Rajendra Prasad while blessing the efforts of the Scindia Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. of. establishing the first Indian. Shipbuilding Yard at Vizagapatam on Saturday the 21st June 1941
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On being requested to say a few words Shrianati Sarojini Naidu; inter alia said:
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The Scindia Fleet
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