Cochin to Calicut – Australia and Britain, their journey
There are so many people of Indian origin living in Australia, these days. Many of them as well as tourists view Sydney with wonder, but few would know the connections between the Australian ‘Father of the Nation’ Lachlan Macquarie, Sydney, and Malabar. Nor would they know that his lifelong servant and man Friday, George Jarvis was a slave boy purchased from a Cochin slave market. In 12 years, Lachlan changed the face of a penal convict nation and laid the foundations for Sydney to become a great metropolis. I had introduced Lachlan and George a few years earlier, and outlined their times at Calicut, but as promised, here is a follow-up version with some more details.