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249 Chapter 6 INDIAN MARITIME laws AND THEIR EFFICACY INTRODUCTION: India has built up a magnificent MARITIME history and tradition for several decades even much before the rise of European MARITIME powers. In ancient period, INDIAN ships used to sail across many international high seas for trading purposes with other Asian and Middle East countries. But after the advent of British rule, the indigenous shipping industry was considerably discouraged due to preferential treatment given to the British ships and restrictive British navigational laws1 which for , required INDIAN ships to be registered under U. K. Merchant Shipping Act which technically meant that they were British ships although registered in India. In spite of the existence of old age MARITIME laws in India, the growth of the MARITIME sector in India over the past decades has been quite Among all Asian and African countries including other developing countries in the world, India has one of the largest and considerably well coordinated merchant shipping fleet with almost ninety 1 The British navigational laws not only barred the growth and development of INDIAN shipping but gradually made it to disappear from the international high seas.
249 Chapter 6 INDIAN MARITIME LAWS AND THEIR EFFICACY 6.1 INTRODUCTION: India has built up a magnificent maritime history and tradition for
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