Tea and teak are identified as two especially important resources in Britain's Indian system. Teak supplied durable timber for ships built in India. Later railway construction helped move valuable commodities, including teak, out of the interior. Shipbuilding material therefore belonged to a wider imperial transport and commercial network long before it reached a dockyard.
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Teak and imperial shipbuilding
Teak is presented as one of the Indian resources that connected imperial trade, railway development, and durable ship construction.