Unmooring the Komagata Maru : charting colonial trajectories

Dhamoon, Rita, 1970- (editor.). Bhandar, Davina, 1968- (editor.). Mawani, Renisa, 1970- (editor.). Bains, Satwinder Kaur, 1957- (editor.).

Summary: "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."--

Record details

ISBN: 0774860650
ISBN: 9780774860659
Physical Description: print
xix, 329 pages : map ; 24 cm
Publisher: Vancouver ; UBC Press, [2019]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: Itinerant Subjects of Empire: Unmooring the Komagata Maru / Davina Bhandar and Rita Kaur Dhamoon -- Part 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 Fletcher -- 2 The Last Stretch of the Journey: The Komagata Maru, War-Time Political Radicalism, and Migrant Workers from Punjab in Calcutta / Suchetana Chattopadhyay -- 3 Resistance Struggles: Facing Lies, Deception, and Racism / Satwinder Kaur Bains -- Part 2: Migration Regimes in Colonial Contexts -- 4 The Komagata Maru as Event: Legal Transformations in Migration Regimes / Radhika Mongia -- 5 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 Upadhyay -- 6 Temporary Arrivals: The Komagata Maru Passengers and Migrant Labour / Davina Bhandar -- Part 3: Colonial Temporalities of Memory and Cultural Production -- 7 The Komagata Maru Incident as Described in Two Japanese Works / Kaori Mizukami -- 8 (Mis)Representing the Komagata Maru in Indian Print Cultures / Irina Spector-Marks -- 9 The Time and Sound of the Nautical Border / Ayesha Hameed -- Part 4: Disrupting Colonial Formations of Nation -- 10 When Home and Harem Collide: The "Hindu Women’s Question": A Mass Spectacle of the Canadian Nation, Family, and Modernity / Enakshi Dua -- 11 The Komagata Maru Recontextualized: Memory, History, and Diasporic Sikh Subnationalism in Anita Rau Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? / Rajender Kaur -- 12 Past Wrongs and a New National Imaginary: Remembering the Komagata Maru Incident / Alia Somani -- 13 The Politics of Empire: Minor History on a Global Scale / Renisa Mawani -- 14 Poems: Still Chanting Denied Shores / Tariq Malik -- Appendix 1: Historical Figures cited in the Chapters -- Appendix 2: BC Government Apology, May 23, 2008 -- Appendix 3: Canadian Government Apology, May 18, 2016 -- List of Contributors -- Index
Additional Physical Form available Note:	Issued also in electronic format.