© Len Kenna and Crystal Jordan Photograph Meer Khan courtesy of K. Drayton-Korda Geelong Hist. Soc. On the 24 November 1944 Sir Raghunath Paranjpye arrived in Melbourne becoming the first Indian High Commissioner to Australia thus establishing formal relations between…
© Len Kenna and Crystal Jordan 2021 Nadan Singh was born in c. 1872 at Hardaspura Village, Tehsil Barnala, Punjab, India and migrated to New South Wales, Australia in 1894. He lived and worked as a Hawker, using a horse…
Gamble Singh (aka Gambil/Gambol), was an Indian Hawker from the Punjab who lived and worked in the Albury and Wodonga District hawking with a wagon drawn by two horses. Gamble followed the Sikh Religion and as is the custom of…
© Len Kenna & Crystal Jordan 2019 Indian Hawkers supplied a large range of items used in everyday life for people in cities and towns throughout Australia. One on those hawkers was Siva Singh, who hawked in the Benalla District,…
SIVA SINGH'S WAGON WILL BE RETURNED TO BE ON DISPLAY AT BENALLA AS SOON AS A SUITABLE SITE IS FOUND TO HOUSE ITSEE STORY ABOUT SIVA'S WAGON Len Kenna & Crystal Jordan 2019. Siva Singh arrived in Australia in approximately…
Private Davy Singh An Anzac and a Kurrajong. 33rd Battalion WWI. Authors: Len Kenna and Crystal Jordan Published by: Australian Indian Historical Society Inc. Description: During World War One a number of Indians living in Australia enlisted in the Australian…
RESEARCH NOTES OF THE PLAY IT HAPPENED IN HEYWOOD by Len Kenna 2001 READ ONLINE at NLA Our journey into Indian Historical Research began in 1985. However, while researching Indian Hawkers in the Western District of Victoria…
Glamallie Khan (Ghulam Ali Khan[1]) ©Len Kenna & Crystal Jordan 2017 Glamallie Khan (Ghulam Ali Khan) was the son of Azimullah (Mulla) and Roshenay Khan. His father, Mulla, was the son of Shere Khan in Mohri, Gujurat, India (now Pakistan) where…
