The Voyage of the Komagata Maru

The Voyage of the Komagata Maru
Author: Hugh J. M. Johnston
Publsiher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2014-04-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780774825498

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This new and expanded edition offers the most thoroughly researched account of the notorious Komagata Maru incident. The event centres on the ship's nearly four hundred Punjabi passengers, who sought entry into Canada at Vancouver in the summer of 1914, only to be chased away by a Canadian warship. This story became a symbol of prejudicial immigration policies, which Canadians today reject, and served to fuel the emerging anti-British movement in India. It deserves the careful re-examination it gets in this thoroughly updated edition that provides a contemporary perspective on a defining moment in Canadian, British Empire, and Indian history.

The Voyage of the Komagata Maru

The Voyage of the Komagata Maru
Author: Hugh Johnston
Publsiher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780774844727

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In May 1914, 400 Sikhs left for British Columbia by chartered ship, resolved to claim their right to equal treatment with white citizens of the British Empire and force entry into Canada. They were anchored off Vancouver for over two months, enduring extreme physical privation and harrassment by immigration officials, but defying federal deportation orders even when the Canadian government attempted to enforce them with a gunboat. The leaders of the group, who were thought to be closely associated with the nationalist, terrorist movement in India, were finally persuaded to return to India. They were by then full of revolutionary fervour against the Raj. On their disembarkation at Calcutta, troops opened fire while attempting to control the passengers, and a number of them were killed. The event, which had already raised a great deal of interest and concern among the governments of India and Canada, was now invested for Indian nationalists with a tragic significance which can be compared to that of Jallianwallah Bagh, while Gurdit Singh, the leader, was acclaimed as a heroic revolutionary figure by eminent Congressmen.

Across Oceans of Law

Across Oceans of Law
Author: Renisa Mawani
Publsiher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2018-08-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780822372127

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In 1914 the British-built and Japanese-owned steamship Komagata Maru left Hong Kong for Vancouver carrying 376 Punjabi migrants. Chartered by railway contractor and purported rubber planter Gurdit Singh, the ship and its passengers were denied entry into Canada and two months later were deported to Calcutta. In Across Oceans of Law Renisa Mawani retells this well-known story of the Komagata Maru. Drawing on "oceans as method"—a mode of thinking and writing that repositions land and sea—Mawani examines the historical and conceptual stakes of situating histories of Indian migration within maritime worlds. Through close readings of the ship, the manifest, the trial, and the anticolonial writings of Singh and others, Mawani argues that the Komagata Maru's landing raised urgent questions regarding the jurisdictional tensions between the common law and admiralty law, and, ultimately, the legal status of the sea. By following the movements of a single ship and bringing oceans into sharper view, Mawani traces British imperial power through racial, temporal, and legal contests and offers a novel method of writing colonial legal history.

Unmooring the Komagata Maru

Unmooring the Komagata Maru
Author: Rita Dhamoon,Davina Bhandar,Renisa Mawani,Satwinder Kaur Bains
Publsiher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2019-08-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780774860680

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In 1914, the SS Komagata Maru arrived in Vancouver Harbour and was detained for two months. Most of its 376 passengers were then forcibly returned to India. Unmooring the Komagata Maru challenges conventional Canadian historical accounts by drawing from multiple disciplines and fields to consider the international and colonial dimensions of the voyage. By situating South Asian Canadian history within a global-imperial context, the contributors offer a critical reading of Canadian multiculturalism through past events and their commemoration. A hundred years later, the voyage of the Komagata Maru has yet to reach its conclusion.

The Komagata Maru Incident

The Komagata Maru Incident
Author: Sharon Pollock
Publsiher: Playwrights Canada
Total Pages: 47
Release: 1978
Genre: Canadian drama
ISBN: 0887540732

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Voices of Komagata Maru

Voices of Komagata Maru
Author: Suchetana Chattopadhyay
Publsiher: Tulika Books
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2018-10-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 8193401581

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Early twentieth-century Calcutta was not just a point of passage within the British Empire, but a key center of colonial power; a crucial laboratory of imperial repressive practices cultivated and applied elsewhere. Histories of the Komagata Maru or the Ghadar Movement offer rewarding perspectives on Punjabi Sikh migrants, but fail to adequately investigate why the ship was brought to Bengal; why overwhelming locally organized imperial vigilance was imposed on ships that arrived soon afterward; and the extent to which the operation of the repressive colonial state apparatus influenced the intersections of anticolonial strands in Calcutta and its surroundings during 1914-15. This monograph traces this early wartime clash of positions and the organized postwar transmission of the memory of the Komagata Maru as a symbol of resistance among the Sikh workers in the industrial centers of southwest Bengal. It acts as a link in a chain of scholarship that has hitherto traced the spread of radical anticolonial currents among the Punjabi Sikh diaspora that connected Punjab with Southeast Asia, East Asia, and the Americas.

Komagata Maru

Komagata Maru
Author: Malwinder Jit Singh Waraich,Guradewa Siṅgha Siddhū
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2013
Genre: Canada
ISBN: 8123769970

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Jewels of the Qila

Jewels of the Qila
Author: Hugh J.M. Johnston
Publsiher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2011-11-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780774822190

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This is a story about a remarkable Sikh family and the communities they lived in and supported in both Canada and India. Kapoor Singh Siddoo arrived in British Columbia in 1912 and overcame racial prejudice and legal discrimination to transform himself from labourer to lumber baron. He and his wife, Besant Kaur, fostered in their daughters a vision of service and activism that they fulfilled by establishing a hospital in Punjab and introducing an Indian spiritual tradition to their new home in Canada. Hugh Johnston tells their story with warmth and perceptiveness, while telling a larger tale about the trials and tribulations faced by immigrant communities in Canada.