© by Len Kenna & Crystal Jordan First Publisher 2016 Updated 2018 HOW THE AUSTRALIAN PUNJAUB GOT ITS NAME There are many Stations, Towns and Districts in Australia that have Indian names. This is because the pioneer’s of these places…
© Len Kenna & Crystal Jordan Are Indians an Ethnic Minority? Vols. 1-5 - 2008-2013. 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…
The effects of hegemony on any given population varies depending upon a range of circumstances. For example: in India where Indianisation of some Government bodies commenced decades before Independence and this Indianisation increased rapidly after Independence until all Government positions…
Len Kenna 14.04.2015 For most of my life; even as child I studied Australian History and Australian Literature as an interest or hobby. I have also studied Australian History and Australian Archaeology and Australian Historical Archaeology at University and…
Len Kenna 10.04.2015 As discussed earlier, the first settlement in New South Wales was under the control of Europeans who had either worked or lived in India and brought the administrative skills that they had learned in India to New…
Len Kenna 07.04.2015 The Second Fleet arrived in 1790, two years after the landing of the First Fleet, and found that the newly formed Colony was on the verge of collapse, because of a severe lack of food and the…
Len Kenna 05.04.2015 When I say that Indians were Pioneers in every sense of the word; I don’t mean that they pioneered Australia in the romantic image of today; fighting their way through the virgin bush with their herds of…
Len Kenna 30.03.2015 In 2001, George Lekakis Chairman of Multicultural Affairs Victoria, asked Crystal Jordan and I to write a definitive history of Indians in Australia with three main aims: To reduce Racism in Victoria. To write the History in such…