HISTORY OF INDIAN SHIPPING Indian Shipping has a long story that tells its history which covers a huge period of about five millenniums, starting from the dawn of the popular Indus Valley Civilisation. It was a prosperous age of Indian maritime activities but a major part of its evolvement remains a mystery because of being unexplored. After which the shipping industry flourished during the reign of Emperor Akbar when there were 40,000 Indian ships plying in the Indian Ocean. To understand the nature and orientation of India’s shipping clearly, it is important to study and analyse it. India has always been counted among the leaders of the seafaring nations because of its extremely glorious shipping heritage. THE BRITISH RULE The rise of the British Rule gave fighting times to the whole Indian shipping industry because of the cut- throat competition and u...