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Across Oceans of Law

- The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire
Af: Renisa Mawani Engelsk Paperback

Across Oceans of Law

- The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire
Af: Renisa Mawani Engelsk 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 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 "oceans as method"—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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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 "oceans as method"—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.
Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 352
ISBN-13: 9780822370352
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0822370352
Kategori: Immigrationsret
Udg. Dato: 17 aug 2018
Længde: 26mm
Bredde: 229mm
Højde: 154mm
Forlag: Duke University Press
Oplagsdato: 17 aug 2018
Forfatter(e): Renisa Mawani
Forfatter(e) Renisa Mawani


Kategori Immigrationsret


ISBN-13 9780822370352


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 352


Udgave


Længde 26mm


Bredde 229mm


Højde 154mm


Udg. Dato 17 aug 2018


Oplagsdato 17 aug 2018


Forlag Duke University Press

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