Please write correctly about the cause of Decline of Shipbuilding Industry in India. The British rather encouraged shipbuilding at Calcutta, Bombay, Cochin, etc. They gave contracts to the Indian shipbuilders to construct warships, transport and load-carrying ships. There were more than 200 warships in the Royal Navy, they were better and sturdier than other European warships for being built of teakwood that could withstand enemy cannon balls much better than the other European oak-wood ships. The large carrying capacity of Indian built ships also helped the British merchants in transporting large quantity of goods. It was the British government that stopped the shipbuilding in India. Please refer to the following:- Board of Directors of East India Company records: “The workers at the London port were among the first to make hue and cry and said that ‘all our work will be ruined and families will starve to death.’ All the fear and respect that the Indian seamen had towards European behaviour was lost when they saw our social life once they come here. When they return to their country, they will propagate bad things about us amongst the Asians and we will lose our superiority and the effect will be harmful.” British Parliamentary Committee under Chairmanship of Sir Robert Peel:- “Despite agreement amongst the members of the committee on the basis of this report, a law was passed in 1814 according to which the Indians lost the right to become British sailors and it became compulsory to employ at least three-fourth British sailors on British ships. No ship which did not have a British master was allowed to enter London port and a rule was made that only ships made by the British in England could bring goods to England. For many reasons, there was laxity in enforcing these rules, but from 1863 they were observed strictly. Such rules which would end the ancient art of ship building were formulated in India also. Tax on goods brought in Indian ships was raised and efforts were made to isolate them from trade. Sir William Digby has rightly written, ‘This way, the Queen of the Western world killed the Queen of the Eastern Oceans.’ In short, this is the story about the destruction of the Indian art of ship-building.”