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	The first [[Agiary\|Atash Adaran]] in India was established in Siganpur, near Surat, by Lovji Wadia, around 1760.		The first [[Agiary\|Atash Adaran]] in India was established in Siganpur, near Surat, by Lovji Wadia, around 1760.
	His descendants are the Wadia family of [[Nusli Wadia]], [[Ness Wadia]] and [[Jehangir Wadia]]. His great grandsons [[JBH Wadia]] and [[Homi Wadia]] founded Wadia Movietone in 1933, which had its studios at Lovji Castle (Lovejee Castle) in [[Chembur]], Mumbai. The company even had its logo as a ship, honouring their family legacy.<ref name="toi">{{cite web \| title = Surat's Wadias created Fearless Nadia \| url = http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Surats-Wadias-created-Fearless-Nadia/articleshow/6668162.cms?referral=PM# \|date=2 October 2010\| accessdate = 2014-09-18 \| newspaper = The Times of India }}</ref>		His descendants are the Wadia family of [[Neville Wadia]], [[Nusli Wadia]], [[Ness Wadia]] and [[Jehangir Wadia]]. His great grandsons [[JBH Wadia]] and [[Homi Wadia]] founded Wadia Movietone in 1933, which had its studios at Lovji Castle (Lovejee Castle) in [[Chembur]], Mumbai. The company even had its logo as a ship, honouring their family legacy.<ref name="toi">{{cite web \| title = Surat's Wadias created Fearless Nadia \| url = http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Surats-Wadias-created-Fearless-Nadia/articleshow/6668162.cms?referral=PM# \|date=2 October 2010\| accessdate = 2014-09-18 \| newspaper = The Times of India }}</ref>

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'''Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia''' (1702–1774) was a [[Parsi people|Parsi]] from [[Surat]] province of [[Gujarat]] in [[India]] and was a member of the [[Wadia|Wadia family]] of [[shipwright]]s and naval architects, who founded [[Wadia Group]] in 1736.<ref>{{cite book
| title = The tribes and castes of Bombay, Volume 3
| author = Reginald Edward Enthoven
| year = 1990
| isbn = 978-81-206-0630-2
| publisher = Asian Educational Services
}}</ref><ref>{{cite book
| title = Parsis, ancient and modern and their religion
| author = Faredun Kavasji Dadachanji
| year = 1986
}}</ref>

Lovji Wadia secured contracts with the [[British East India Company]] to build ships and docks in Bombay in 1736.<ref>{{cite book
| title = Bollywood: a history
| author = Mihir Bose
| year = 2006
| publisher = Tempus
| isbn = 978-0-7524-2835-2
}}</ref> This, and subsequent efforts, would result in Bombay becoming one of the most strategically important ports for the British in [[Asia]].

The [[Mumbai|Bombay]] dry-dock, the first dry-dock in Asia, was built by Lovji and his brother Sorabji in 1750.

Lovji is considered the founder of the shipping and shipbuilder industry in Bombay. To this day, Surat remains the largest break-up beaching port (where ships are stripped and disassembled) in the world.

Lovji had two sons, Maneckji and Bomanji.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.zoroastrian.org.uk/vohuman/Article/The%20Wadias%20of%20India.htm|title = The Wadias of India: Then and Now|date = |accessdate = 19 Dec 2014|website = |publisher = Zoroastrian Educational Institute|last = |first = }}</ref>

The first [[Agiary|Atash Adaran]] in India was established in Siganpur, near Surat, by Lovji Wadia, around 1760.
His descendants are the Wadia family of [[Nusli Wadia]], [[Ness Wadia]] and [[Jehangir Wadia]]. His great grandsons [[JBH Wadia]] and [[Homi Wadia]] founded Wadia Movietone in 1933, which had its studios at Lovji Castle (Lovejee Castle) in [[Chembur]], Mumbai. The company even had its logo as a ship, honouring their family legacy.<ref name="toi">{{cite web | title = Surat's Wadias created Fearless Nadia | url = http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Surats-Wadias-created-Fearless-Nadia/articleshow/6668162.cms?referral=PM# |date=2 October 2010| accessdate = 2014-09-18 | newspaper = The Times of India }}</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081021142252/http://www.vohuman.org/Article/The%20Wadias%20of%20India.htm The Wadias]

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