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==Historical background==
*''[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 Paltyra 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.
*The [http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/adbonline.htm ''Australian Dictionary of Biography''] contains details of many people who had connections with India including [http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030457b.htm?hilite Andrew Crawford] who promoted a settlement scheme at Castra, near Ulverstone, Tasmania in the 1870’s, mentioned in the above article.
*[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.
*[http://home.alphalink.com.au/~agilbert/curious.html The Curious Exclusion Of Anglo-Indians From Mass Slaughter During The Partition Of India] 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
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