British India already relied on a large Indian civil service and possessed an educated population capable of staffing modern yards. Shipbuilding investment would create stable skilled employment, technical advancement, and domestic productive capacity. That material stake might make political change more cautious and negotiated, although this is presented as cynical imperial logic rather than a moral defence of empire. The later comparison contrasts poverty-driven violent revolt with middle-class-led independence movements and uses India's path as the example. Naval industrialisation could therefore carry wider political consequences for colonial economic development.
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Indian shipyards could link industrial growth with political stability
Modernising India's yards would have employed skilled Indian workers and created an industrial stake in gradual political change as well as strengthening naval production.