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*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 "[http://angloindian.wordpress.com/history A Brief History of the Anglo Indians]" by Dr. Gloria J. Moore. 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 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. [http://www.archive.org/details/undersoutherncro00corniala] [http://www.archive.org/details/undersoutherncr00corngoog]

*The State Library of S.A. , in [http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/manning/sa/immigra/misc.htm Immigration –Miscellany] lists a number of newspaper references concerning emigration from India.

*[http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/india.html Convicts Transported to Australia from India] For Military Convicts from Bengal, you can probably obtain a summary of the Court Martial proceedings in the General Orders by C-in-C Bengal in the L/MIL/17/2 series at the British Library, and similarly for the other Presidencies. (Unfortunately, these have not been microfilmed)

* 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 [http://books.google.com/books?id=CedwdbtjXfwC&pg=PA122 Google Books]