The colonial aspect is an interesting topic and was one of the reasons ASHA
went from Australian to Australasian as there was some discussion of the
need to consider more than just Australia or New Zealand historical
archaeology.

There has been some historical archaeology work on India by Wayne Mullens a
doctoral student at the University of Sydney and the ASHA Journal will be
publishing something on South-East Asia in its next issue (very) later this
year.

There is also some work on shipwrecks principally on VoC shipwrecks off the
Australian coast but also on the Sydney Cove which tried to sail  from India
to Sydney but found Flinders Island where it was wrecked. The WA Museum also
has undertaken considerable archaeological work on S-E Asian shipwrecks.

Good as Connah's book is, Australia is not really India.

Iain Stuart
Principal, Archaeology and Heritage Management
HLA-Envirosciences Pty. Ltd.