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==External Links=====Historical background===
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This section details connections between British India and '''Australia''', particularly emigration and immigration.
==Early Connections with India==
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 was 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 a book written by Henry Shepherd in 1829,[http://books.google.com/books?id=_7sHAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+inefficiency+of+the+ecclesiastical+establishment+of+India#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''The inefficiency of the ecclesiastical establishment of India ''].
*''[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 (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 ''Under the Southern Cross'' (republished by Penguin in 1975). The original version of this book is available on the free website archive.org. Here are two links for what seems to be the same book. [http://www.archive.org/details/undersoutherncro00corniala] [http://www.archive.org/details/undersoutherncr00corngoog]
*Laura and Charles Hope were Baptist medical missionaries from Australia, who worked in India for most of the period 1893 to 1934 [http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140557b.htm Australian DIctionary of Biography]
*[http://www.coraweb.com.au CoraWeb] Cora Num’s Australian gateway site for tracing family history includes shipping links
*[http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/recordsearch/index.aspx National Archives of Australia: Index to passenger arrivals] Select ''passenger index'' for passengers arriving by ship in Fremantle and other Western Australian ports between January 1921 and 15 January 1950; or arriving at Perth airport between 1944 and 15 January 1950. Dates are those available at July 2009, new data may be added. Includes passengers proceeding to ports further east, including New Zealand.
*[[Convicts]]
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