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Unmooring the Komagata Maru : charting colonial trajectories

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  • Publisher:
    UBC Press, 2019
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Contributor: Bains, Satwinder Kaur; Bhandar, Davina; Dhamoon, Rita; Mawani, Renisa
    Date:
    Created
    2019
    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 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.

    Genre:
    Canadian nonfiction, History and geography
    Subject(s): East Indians | Ethnic relations | Imperialism--Social aspects
    Original Publisher: [S.l.], UBC Press
    Language(s): English