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Linking History: Indian Servants and Convicts in Australia

In this episode, LAKSHMI GANAPATHY explores the Indians who arrived in Australia as convicts and servants in the late 1700s and early 1800s.

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Linking History is a video series diving into the history of Australia since  colonisation. In particular, the series aims to highlight the maner in which South Asians have interacted and contributed to this history, and the complex relationship they have with this unceded land.

In this episode, Lakshmi Ganapathy talks about the Indians who arrived in Australia as convicts and servants in the late 1700s and early 1800s.

A detailed list of the sources used during this episode can be found here: EP 1 RESOURCES.docx  

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Lakshmi Ganapathy
Lakshmi Ganapathy
Lakshmi is Melbourne Content Creator for Indian Link and the winner of the VMC's 2024 Multicultural Award for Excellence in Media. Best known for her monthly youth segment 'Cutting Chai' and her historical video series 'Linking History' which won the 2024 NSW PMCA Award for 'Best Audio-Visual Report', she is also a highly proficient arts journalist, selected for ArtsHub's Amplify Collective in 2023.

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