India and Ireland - two countries thousands of miles apart. Joined together by men and women who were born in one country, but came by twist of fate to settle in the other. In pictures and in words, this book tells the story of those settlers, their journeys, and what it was like to start a new life in a distant land.

The book introduces a host of entertaining characters -

• The Indian boy who befriended an Irish soldier serving in India, travelled to Cork, fell in love and married an Irish colleen, and ended up as 'shampooing surgeon' to King George VI
• The Indian prince who played cricket for England and who lived the life of a squire in western Ireland
• The Indian cook who jumped ship in Glasgow, moved to Ulster, married a local Irish girl, had 12 children, and built up a successful business, even though he couldn't read or write
• The young Indian student who came to Dublin to study medicine with 55 pence in his pocket. During his time at medical school, he would wash buses at night to make two ends meet
• The Indian, running for political office in Ireland, whose slogan was -
  "You've tried the cowboys, now try the Indians!"

The book also covers the effects of the 'troubles' on the Indian community in Northern Ireland -

• The Indian mother-to-be, shot dead in her car by the IRA in a police ambush that went wrong, with her two young children looking on