Mawani Renisa Mawani

Across Oceans of Law (eBook, PDF)

The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

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 entry into Canada and two months later were deported to Calcutta. In Across Oceans of Law Renisa Mawani retells this well-known story of the Komagata Maru. Drawing on "e;oceans as method"e;-a mode of thinking and writing that repositions land and sea-Mawani examines the historical and conceptual stakes of situating histories of Indian migration within maritime worlds. Through close readings of the ship, the manifest, the trial, and the anticolonial writings of Singh and others, Mawani argues that the Komagata Maru's landing raised urgent questions regarding the jurisdictional tensions between the common law and admiralty law, and, ultimately, the legal status of the sea. By following the movements of a single ship and bringing oceans into sharper view, Mawani traces British imperial power through racial, temporal, and legal contests and offers a novel method of writing colonial legal history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822372127
• Artikelnr.: 54793635

Autorenporträt

Renisa Mawani

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction. Currents and Countercurrents of Law and Radicalism  1
1. The Free Sea: A Juridical Space  35
2. The Ship as Legal Person  73
3. Land, Sea, and Subjecthood  115
4. Anticolonial Vernaculars of Indigeneity  152
5. The Fugitive Sojourns of Gurdit Singh  188
Epilogue. Race, Jurisdiction, and the Free Sea Reconsidered  231
Notes  241
Bibliography  293
Index  319