Imperialism and Sikh Migration - The Komagata Maru Incident

List of contents

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Chapter 1 Free-flowing Cartographies





2. Chapter 2 Oceanic Movements of Sikhs in the Nineteenth century





3. Chapter 3 Sikhs in Canada





4. Chapter 4 Immobile Mobilities and Free-Flowing Sikh Movements





5. Chapter 5 Making and Unmaking of Strangers





6. Chapter 6 Resistant Subjects





7. Chapter 7 Pastoral Cosmopolitanisms





8. Conclusion

About the author

Anjali Gera Roy is Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.

Summary

This book focuses on the Komagata Maru episode of 1914. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Anjali Gera Roy, Anjali Roy, Anjali (Iit Kharagpur Roy, Anjali Gera (Indian Institute of Technology Roy
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367885496
• ISBN: 978-0-367-88549-6
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Colonialism & imperialism, Migration, immigration & emigration, Social and cultural history, Migration, immigration and emigration, Colonialism and imperialism, Sikhism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General