Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Wadia family is a Parsi family originally based in Surat.Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia began the Wadia shipbuilding dynasty in 1736, when he obtained a contract from the British East India Company for building docks and ships in Bombay (present-day Mumbai). Although the Wadia''s would eventually come to be considered a Bombay family, many of them remained in Surat, where one branch of the family established a break-up port (where ships are dismantled) that remains one of the largest of its kind in the world.By the 1840s the family was one of the leading forces in the Indian shipbuilding industry. By that time they had built over a hundred warships for the British and had trading networks around the world.