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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 |