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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 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 <ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=_7sHAAAAQAAJ ''The inefficiency of the ecclesiastical establishment of India''] by Henry Shepherd in (1829).</ref>

*Article entitled ''Links with India: Records in the New South Wales State Archives relating to settlers and others.'' by Christine Yeats, Manager, Public Access, State Records Authority of New South Wales. This appeared in FIBIS journal no 16 – pages 28 to 39. For details of how this journal can be accessed online [http://www.fibis.org/membership.htm -2 FIBIS members] or purchased (non members) see [[FIBIS Journals]]