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…
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…
Hukum Singh Sihota (Sahota) was from Bara Pind Village, Jalandhar, Punjab, India and came to Australia ca.1900. He may have been a Hawker, Farmer, Sugar Cane Cutter or Farmer or worked on farms in Victoria, New South Wales or Queensland.…
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…
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…