Unmooring the Komagata Maru charting colonial trajectories


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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 considering the international colonial dimensions of the incident. By situating South Asian Canadian history within a global-imperial context, the contributors offer a critical reading of Canada's multicultural credentials. Ultimately, they caution against narratives that present the incident as a dark moment in the history of an otherwise redeemed nation. A hundred years later, the voyage of the Komagata Maru has yet to reach its conclusion."-- Provided by publisher

Author(s): Rita Dhamoon , Davina Bhandar , Renisa Mawani , Satwinder Kaur Bains
Document: Book · Paperback · CIRC [ 0 ]
Edition: 1st Edition
Published: 2019
Physical Description: xix, 329 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Genre: History
Contents:

Introduction: Itinerant Subjects of Empire: Unmooring the Komagata Maru / Davina Bhandar and Rita Kaur DhamoonPart 1: The Politics of Anti-Colonial Resistance in the Journey of the Komagata Maru 1 Right to the Empire?: British Imperial Citizenship before the First World War / Ian Christopher Fletcher2 The Last Stretch of the Journey: The Komagata Maru, War-Time Political Radicalism, and Migrant Workers from Punjab in Calcutta / Suchetana Chattopadhyay3 Resistance Struggles: Facing Lies, Deception, and Racism / Satwinder Kaur BainsPart 2: Migration Regimes in Colonial Contexts 4 The Komagata Maru as Event: Legal Transformations in Migration Regimes / Radhika Mongia5 Borders, Boats, and Brown Bodies: Reading Tamil “Irregular Arrivals” through the History of the Komagata Maru / Nadia Hasan, Sailaja Krishnamurti, Omme-Salma Rahemtullah, Nayani Thiyagarajah, and Nishant Upadhyay6 Temporary Arrivals: The Komagata Maru Passengers and Migrant Labour / Davina BhandarPart 3: Colonial Temporalities of Memory and Cultural Production7 The Komagata Maru Incident as Described in Two Japanese Works / Kaori Mizukami8 (Mis)Representing the Komagata Maru in Indian Print Cultures / Irina Spector-Marks9 The Time and Sound of the Nautical Border / Ayesha HameedPart 4: Disrupting Colonial Formations of Nation10 When Home and Harem Collide: The "Hindu Women’s Question": A Mass Spectacle of the Canadian Nation, Family, and Modernity / Enakshi Dua11 The Komagata Maru Recontextualized: Memory, History, and Diasporic Sikh Subnationalism in Anita Rau Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? / Rajender Kaur12 Past Wrongs and a New National Imaginary: Remembering the Komagata Maru Incident / Alia Somani13 The Politics of Empire: Minor History on a Global Scale / Renisa Mawani14 Poems: Still Chanting Denied Shores / Tariq MalikAppendix 1: Historical Figures cited in the ChaptersAppendix 2: BC Government Apology, May 23, 2008Appendix 3: Canadian Government Apology, May 18, 2016List of Contributors; Index

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1900-1999, British Columbia Vancouver, Canada, Canada Ethnic relations History 20th century, Canada Relations interethniques Histoire 20e siècle, East Indians, East Indians British Columbia Vancouver History 20th century, Ethnic relations, History, Imperialism Social aspects, Imperialism Social aspects Canada History 20th century, Impérialisme As

 

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