Indian Steamship Ventures, 1836-1910: Darmanathan Prouchandy of Pondicherry, First Steam Navigator from South India, 1891-1910
Subtitle: Darmanathan Prouchandy of Pondicherry, First Steam Navigator from South India, 1891-1900
Publisher: L.P. Memorial Sangam, Pondicherry
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Pondicherry
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 116
Description: IN this book, More writes about the early history of steam navigation in India since 1836 upto 1910. Dwarkanath Tagore of Bengal was the pioneer in Indian Steam Navigation. Darmanathan Prouchandy was the first Pondicherrian and Tamilian to establish a steam navigation line on his own in 1891. He was also the first Indian and Tamilian to attempt to run a passenger steamer line by sea in 1895 in the South China sea. But permission was denied to him by the French colonial authorities of Indochina. Later we have the steam navigation companies of the Roys and the Bengal Steam Navigation Company. Tamilians established the Si.Va. Company to run steamers between Tuticorin and Colombo early in 1906. Later the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company was initiated at Tuticorin by V.O.Chidambaram.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: Chapter 1: The First South Indian and Tamil Steam Navigation Venture; title: Chapter 2: The Tata Line and the East Bengal River Steam Service; title: Chapter 3: Indian Steam Navigation Companies post-1904; title: Chapter 4: The Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company, 1906-1909; title: Conclusions and Observations; title: Notes; title: Biographical Sketches; title: Bibliography; title: Index