There is a community of Australians in India, consisting mostly of expatriates and migrants from Australia

Australia

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. Australia has a High Commission in New Delhi

New Delhi

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 and Consulates in Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

 and Chennai

Chennai

Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...

.

Overview

According to the Australian High Commission

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, there are about 3,000 to 4,000 Australians living and working in India. Industries such as hospitality, financial services and mining and materials have relatively higher concentration of Australian expatriates. About 1,000 Australian companies evince interest in doing projects in India every year despite the challenges of "bureaucracy" and "delays" as opportunities outnumber these impediments. At present, there are about 60 Australian companies working in the infrastructure

Infrastructure

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 sector in India. Large Australian firms such as BHP Billiton

BHP Billiton

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, Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto Group

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, Snowy Mountain Engineering, Macquarie Group

Macquarie Group

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 and Leighton Holdings

Leighton Holdings

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 have operations in India.

Following the 2009 attacks on Indian students in Australia, relations between the Australian expatriates and the local Indians have been tense and there is a fear of backlash against Australians in India.

In popular culture

• Shantaram
  Shantaram (novel)
  Shantaram is a 2003 novel by Gregory David Roberts, in which a convicted Australian bank robber and heroin addict who escaped from Pentridge Prison flees to India where he lives for 10 years...
  
   - a 2003 novel by Gregory David Roberts based on Roberts' own experiences in Mumbai
  Mumbai
  Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
  
  

Notable people

• Bob Christo - Indian actor
• Fearless Nadia
  Fearless Nadia
  Fearless Nadia was an Indian film actress and stuntwoman, who is most remembered the masked, cloaked adventuress in Hunterwali made in 1935 , which was one of the earliest female lead Indian films .-Early life:Fearless Nadia was born as Mary Ann Evans on 8 January 1908 in Perth, Western Australia...
  
   - Indian film actress and stuntwoman
• Gregory David Roberts
  Gregory David Roberts
  Gregory David Roberts is an Australian author best known for his novel Shantaram. He is a former heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped from Pentridge Prison in 1980, and fled to India where he lived for ten years.-Life:Roberts had become addicted to heroin after his marriage ended,...
  
   - Australian author and former heroin addict and convicted bank robber
• Pallavi Sharda
  Pallavi Sharda
  Pallavi Sharda is an Indian-Australian film/theatre actress and dancer, trained in the classical Indian dance form of Bharatha Natyam. Born in Perth and brought up in Melbourne she is currently based out of Mumbai. Her Bollywood debut came in the comedic-drama film, Dus Tola, in which she played...
  
   - Film/theatre actress and dancer
• Isha Sharvani
  Isha Sharvani
  Isha Sharvani is an Indian dancer and actress. She is known for her stylistic and difficult dance performances...
  
   - Indian dancer and actress
• Anne Warner - Australian state politician (born in India)