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Imperialism and Sikh Migration : The Komagata Maru Incident.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge Studies in South Asian History SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2017Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (204 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781351802987
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Imperialism and Sikh MigrationDDC classification:
  • 304.80954
LOC classification:
  • JV7225.R69 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Free-flowing cartographies -- 2 Oceanic movements of Sikhs in the nineteenth century -- 3 Sikhs in Canada -- 4 Immobile mobilities and free-flowing Sikh movements -- 5 Making and unmaking of strangers -- 6 Resistant subjects -- 7 Pastoral cosmopolitanisms -- Conclusion -- Index.
Summary: This book focuses on the Komagata Maru episode of 1914: This Japanese ship was chartered by Gurdit Singh, a prosperous Sikh businessman from Malaya. It carried 376 passengers from Punjab and was not permitted to land in Vancouver on grounds of a stipulation about a continuous journey from the port of departure and forced to return to Kolkata where the passengers were fired at, imprisoned or kept under surveillance. The author isolates juridical procedures, tactics and apparatus of security through which the British Empire exercised power on imperial subjects by investigating the significance of this incident to colonial and postcolonial migration.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Free-flowing cartographies -- 2 Oceanic movements of Sikhs in the nineteenth century -- 3 Sikhs in Canada -- 4 Immobile mobilities and free-flowing Sikh movements -- 5 Making and unmaking of strangers -- 6 Resistant subjects -- 7 Pastoral cosmopolitanisms -- Conclusion -- Index.

This book focuses on the Komagata Maru episode of 1914: This Japanese ship was chartered by Gurdit Singh, a prosperous Sikh businessman from Malaya. It carried 376 passengers from Punjab and was not permitted to land in Vancouver on grounds of a stipulation about a continuous journey from the port of departure and forced to return to Kolkata where the passengers were fired at, imprisoned or kept under surveillance. The author isolates juridical procedures, tactics and apparatus of security through which the British Empire exercised power on imperial subjects by investigating the significance of this incident to colonial and postcolonial migration.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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