John Cornelius published the Oh-Calcutta Shuffle in Apocalypse, Vol. 5 No. 3, Mar. 1982, p. 604. In this false Hindu shuffle, packets are drawn only from the bottom of the deck, resulting in a complete false shuffle.

James Steranko published the same idea in Steranko on Cards, 1960, p. 37. He used it as part of a multiple shift, but recognized its potential: “This keeps the deck in its original order, which is another advantage of this particular shift.”

The same concept—but applied to the overhand shuffle—seems to have been independently created by both John Kennedy and Eric Mead. Their handling was taught in Michael Close's ebook, Closely Guarded Secrets, 2004, p. 90.