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Links between Australia and India were established from an early date. The first Anglican chaplains, appointed from 1788 at the time when the first shipment of convicts was were sent from Britain, were British Government officials. Then from 1825 - 1836 the Australian Continent formed part of the Diocese of Calcutta. This appears to have been for administrative purposes only as Church records for this period do not appear in the [[India Office Records|India Office Series]]. It is probable that any original intention to make regular visitations of New South Wales (as it was then called) from [[Calcutta]] proved impractical bearing in mind the huge distances involved. This is reflected in a book written by Henry Shepherd in 1829,[http://books.google.com/books?id=_7sHAAAAQAAJ ''The inefficiency of the ecclesiastical establishment of India'']by Henry Shepherd in 1829.