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==Historical background==
* ''Colonial Cousins. A surprising history of connections between India and Australia'' by Joyce Westrip and Peggy Holroyde Wakefield Press 2010. [http://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/files/extracts/Colonial_Cousins_extract.pdf Extract from Colonial Cousins] Wakefieldpress.com which includes Contents, Foreword and Preface. A review by Sylvia Murphy of this book appeared in ''FIBIS Journal Number 24 (Autumn 2010)'',page 54. Refer [[FIBIS Journals]] for details of how to access the review.
*''[http://angloindian.wordpress.com/history A Brief History of the Anglo Indians]'' by Dr. Gloria J. Moore. An article written for inclusion in a publication in 1988, ''The Australian People: an Encyclopedia of the Nation, its People and Their Origins''. A second edition of this book by James Jupp, Cambridge University Press, 2001 is available in a [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=yTKFBXfCI1QC&pg=PA435 Limited View Google Book], page 435.
:The second part of the article mentions the many connections between India and Australia. Included in these is that a major shipment of settlers was organised by Sir William Burton, a judge in Madras in 1844. Burton was president of the Madras East India Society and sought relief for those who "are Christians and look to England as the land of their origin". The society sent two groups from Madras to Sydney in the William Prowse (1853) and the Palmyra (1854). (A similar scheme for Albany in Western Australia ended with a shipwreck.) Many of these men were compositors in the printing trade. Those settled by Burton were surveyed by the author Henry Cornish in 1875 and the results were published in 1879 in his '' [http://www.archive.org/details/undersoutherncro00corniala Under the Southern Cross''] (republished by Penguin in 1975). The original version of this book is available on the free website archive.org, [http://www.archive.org/stream/undersoutherncro00corniala#page/268/mode/2up page 269] gives details.
*[http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2007/12/indiaaustralia.php India Australian Connection] by Owen Clement
*The work of Australian Army nurses in India in the [[First World War]] is decribed in [http://www.awm.gov.au/journal/j36/nurses.asp Reading between unwritten lines: Australian Army nurses in India, 1916-19] by Ruth Rae Australian War Memorial website. Describes the 34th Welsh General Hospital (34 WGH) at [[Deolali]]
*[http://home.alphalink.com.au/~agilbert/aijour~1.html Postcolonial migrations: Anglo-Indians in ‘White Australia’] by Alison Blunt. ''The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies'' Vol. 5, No. 2, 2000. Also by Alison Blunt, ''Domicile and Diaspora: Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home''Wiley-Blackwell, 2005. This [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=vTMew94_aToC&pg=PA147 Limited View Google Book] mentions the voyage of HMAS Manoora in 1947 on page 147.
* There is a book called ''Brother Officers on the Sheep's Back : an Account of the Indian Army Officers Settlement in Victoria in the 1920s'' by Jean G. ("Gerry") Kristiansen. [Camperdown, Vic.] : J.G. Kristiansen, 1993. [http://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/apps/kss Search for a Library] in Australia which has this book.
*[http://home.alphalink.com.au/~agilbert/blackf~1.html Chapter 59 - I Call Australia Home] by Stan Blackford ''The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies'' Volume 6, Number 1, 2001.
