Snipped from http://www.indiaempire.com/v1/2010/July/BOOKS.asp ** Leela Gujadhur Sarup is a historical researcher and author on colonial emigration. Her works are based on hard-to-find documents as they originally appeared in the records of the British Empire. We reproduce, with permission, an extract of an account provided by the Protector of Emigrants in Calcutta to the Government of Bengal. It talks about the remittances by emigrants to India in the early 1860s. From: Captain C. Burbank, Protector of Emigrants, Calcutta To: J. Geoghegan, Esq., Officiating Junior Secretary to the Government of Bengal Dated the 15th May 1866. In obedience to the directions contained in your letter No. 1939 of the 4th ultimo, I have the honor to submit Annual Reports in Duplicates for each colony to which Emigrants were despatched from this Port under Act XIII of 1864 for the year 1865-66 together with the following general Report on Emigration. ** (snip) --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar