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==Historical background==
*Details of the book [http://www.hordern.com/publications/broadbent-india-china-australia.aspx ''India, China, Australia: Trade and Society 1788-1850''] by James Broadbent, Suzanne Rickard and Margaret Steven 2003 The chapter on Indian connections is titled "Lifelines from Calcutta" by Suzanne Rickard, pages 65-93 and footnotes pages 194-196. [http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/30/1054177716867.html Review] of the book by William Dalrymple
* ''Colonial Cousins. A surprising history of connections between India and Australia'' by Joyce Westrip and Peggy Holroyde Wakefield Press 2010. [http://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/files/extracts/Colonial_Cousins_extract.pdf Extract from Colonial Cousins] Wakefieldpress.com which includes Contents, Foreword and Preface. A review by Sylvia Murphy of this book appeared in ''FIBIS Journal Number 24 (Autumn 2010)'',page 54. Refer [[FIBIS Journals]] for details of how to access the review.
*''[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 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.
