1st Edition

Imperialism and Sikh Migration The Komagata Maru Incident

By Anjali Roy Copyright 2018
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In the Punjab, a culture of migration and mobility had already emerged in the nineteenth century. Imperial policies produced a category of hypermobile Sikhs, who left their villages in Punjab to seek their fortunes in South East Asia, Australia, America and Canada. The practices of the British Indian government and the Canada government offer telling instances of the exercise of governmentality... Read more


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


Biography

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