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The Prisoners-of-war were interned in India in 29 camps forming 6 Groups of camps. In addition, there were two Civil Internment Camps at Dehradun and Deoli and one camp in Delhi for the Japanese prisoners captured in Burma.
Some 18,400 Italian prisoners of war (out of 50,000 requested by the Australian Government, to be employed as farm labourers) were transported from India to Australia from 1943. Some of the [Italian?] POWs in India were shipped to South Africa to help build the railway there.<ref>[http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/08/19/italian-pows-helped-grow-australia Italian POWs helped grow Australia] 26 August 2013 SBS News [Special Broadcasting Service] Television and Radio, Australia, quoting Gianfranco Cresciani, author of ''The Italians in Australia''</ref><ref>Francesco Barbera was an Italian POW captured in North Africa in 1941, who spent a few years In India. He was sent to Australia in 1943 where he spent time in POW camps in Liverpool, Cowra, Tumut and St Ives, now a suburb of Sydney. Article in the Sydney suburban newspaper ''North Shore Times'' 25 April 2014, page 11, (previously available online).</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160324112725/http://www.army.gov.au/~/media/Files/Our%20history/AAHU/Primary%20Materials/Post%20War%20and%20Korea%201946-1953/Documents/History%20Directorate%20of%20Prisoners%20of%20War%20and%20Internees%201939%20to%201951%20Part%20Two.pdf Part II: Administration of Enemy Prisoners of War] File from army.gov.au, now an archived webpage</ref>
*Group I – [[Bangalore]]: Camps 1 to 8 - Italian prisoners. There were Camps at Jakkur, Hebbal and Jalahalli.<ref>[https://aturquoisecloud.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/pensioners-paradise-or-pow-camp/ Pensioner’s Paradise or POW Camp ?] by Aliyeh Rizvi, July 7, 2011</ref>
*Group II – Bhopal: Camps 9 to 16 – Italian prisoners. Camp 16 was a hospital. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_Bairagarh Bhopal Bairagarh] (Wikipedia)
====Japanese internees====
*[http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2016/08/a-forgotten-story-from-the-second-world-war.html "A forgotten story from the Second World War"] by Hedley Sutton. Untold lives blog, British Library. Japanese internees in the Internment Camp, Deoli (Ajmer). The majority were interned during December 1941 in Singapore and Malaya, although a few were picked up in Burma and in India itself. There is a reference to British Library records IOR/L/PJ/8/405.
==Records==
===British Library===
