'Colonial Counsis' explores the historic relationship and connection between Australia and India, two colonies of the British Empire. The work considers affinities of landscape and culture, and documents relationships in trade and government as well as anecdotal links, from the time of Gondwana, when the continents were physically joined, to the present.
This is the first time anyone has recorded such a comphrehensive social history covering migration from India to Australia over two centuries. But the book is more than just an historical history - it brings the reader right up to current times with a rare appreciation of policies that impact upon both trade and business between the two countries, and includes material drawn from rare interviews.
Contents:
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Preface
1. Chance Favours Only the Prepared Mind
2. To-ing and Fro-ing: Triangular Journey
3. Coming Down Under
4. Defying Mother Country: The Trading Instinct
5. Indians in the Outback
6. Ghosts of the Golden Mile
7. A Gallop from the Antipodes
8. Cinderella Colony
9. Princely States
10. Spicy Tales and Strange Happenings
11. The Raj Down Under: Desecdants of the Heaven Born
12. The Other Side of the Raj
13. Coming Full Circle
Notes
References
List of Illustrations
Index
Reviews:
'What emerges through the pages of this book is the author's deep understanding and genuine love of India and Australia' - Brian Hayes, QC, National Chairman of the Australia India Business Council
