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The Voyage of the Komagata Maru: The Sikh Challenge to Canada´s Colour Bar, Expanded and Fully Revised Edition

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A century has passed since the Komagata Maru arrived in Vancouver. Its arrival was a direct challenge to Canada’s immigration laws, which barred immigrants from India – yet the nearly four hundred Punjabi passengers on board the ship had been promised equality with all other British subjects, and they arrived to claim that right. The Voyage of the Komagata Maru is an extensive revision, reappraisal, and expansion of Hugh Johnston’s authoritative history of the Komagata Maru incident, first published in 1979. The updated edition draws in new research – exploring legal issues and the motives of the passengers and their ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774825481
SKU
V9780774825481
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About Hugh J.M. Johnston
Hugh J.M. Johnston is a professor emeritus in history at Simon Fraser University. Among his publications are two other books on Punjabis in Canada, Jewels of the Qila: The Remarkable Story of an Indo-Canadian Family (UBC Press, 2012) and The Four Quarters of the Night: The Life Journey of an Emigrant Sikh (1995).

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