Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire by Renisa Mawani

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Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire

Renisa Mawani

352 pages • paperback

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In 1914 the British-built and Japanese-owned steamship Komagata Maru left Hong Kong for Vancouver carrying 376 Punjabi migrants. Chartered by railway contractor and purported rubber planter Gurdit Singh, the ship and its passengers were denied ent...

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