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*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://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.
