Migrants from India have been arriving on Australian shores since the early days of settlement and possibly before that time. However, this article is concentrating on Indians that arrived in Australia after European Settlement in 1788. The Indians that arrived…
In 1922 the President of the Servants of India, the Hon. V. S. Sastri, toured Australia and spoke at public gatherings, including town halls in the capitial cities and addressed full houses or standing room only audiences. At the completion…
When sugar plantations were under construction in Australia their was a mass migration of workers from across Asia, Pacific Islands and India. Some Indians settled in North Queensland and established cane farms and other agricultural pursuits and have lived in…
Monga Khan an Indian Hawker from the Punjab, India, was one of the British Subjects in Australia before the National Citizenship Act 1948. He was an itinerant worker whose intention was to make money to send back to his family…
There is an apparent lack of understanding about the roll that the Certificate of Exemption to the Dictation Test (CEDT) played during the period that the “Immigration Restriction Act 1901” known as the “White Australia Policy” was operating. The Dictation…
DABEE SINGH A PIONEER - PART I POORAN DABEE-SINGH A PIONEER - PART II © Len Kenna and Crystal Jordan 2014 Pooran Dabee Singh was born in the Burnett District, Queensland in 1849 and was by far the most interesting…