Australia
This section details connections between British India and Australia, particularly emigration and immigration.
- An article written for inclusion in a publication in 1988,“The Australian People: an Encyclopedia of the Nation, its People and Their Origins” is called A Brief History of the Anglo Indians by Dr. Gloria J. Moore.
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 Paltyra (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 Under the Southern Cross (republished by Penguin in 1975).The original version of this book is available on the free website archive.org. Here are two links for what seems to be the same book. [1] [2]
- There was a trade in Australian Stock Horses to India. The first horses were sent from New South Wales and in India they became known as Walers wherever they came from in Australia.
A book has been written called Walers : Australian Horses Abroad by Yarwood, A. T. (Alexander Turnbull), 1927-2002. Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press, 1989.: ISBN: 0522843859
Search for a Library in Australia which has this book.
Wickipedia. International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds by Bonnie L. Hendricks, Anthony A. Dent page 434 Google Books Comments about Walers
- Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803 to 1954 is searchable and has many items which mention India.
- The State Library of S.A. , in Immigration –Miscellany lists a number of newspaper references concerning emigration from India.
- Some soldiers committed crimes so they would be transported to Australia according to Emma Roberts who was in India 1828-1832. She wrote: A few [soldiers], driven to despair by the melancholy prospect of interminable exile, unable to await the slow approach of their recall, and allured by the flowery descriptions of Australia, plunge into crime for the purpose of exchanging honourable servitude in India for a felon's lot in a climate resembling that of England. It is no very unusual circumstance for a soldier to attempt the life of his officer or his comrade, in the hope of being transported to a country possessing so many features akin to the land of his birth; and even the punishment of death is to some less terrible than the prospect of eternal banishment from "the home they left with little pain." From Scenes and Characteristics of Hindostan by Emma Roberts. This edition is Volume 2, 1837. Page 122 Google Books
- The National Archives of Australia has a catalogue reference: Admission of Polish Refugee Children in India to Australia 1946-49 A445, 255/1/8 [3]
- Postcolonial migrations: Anglo-Indians in ‘White Australia’ by Alison Blunt. The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies Vol. 5, No. 2, 2000
- India Australian Connection by Owen Clement
- Michael Quin Conroy’s website including many names and lists of passengers on two ships from India, the SS Orient in 1907 and the HMAS Manoora in 1947
- Chapter 59 - I Call Australia Home by Stan Blackford The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies Volume 6, Number 1, 2001.
- Experiences in India During 1947 of some who went to New Zealand by Dorothy McMenamin. The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies Volume 9, Number 1, 2006