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008			210609s2018 ncuab b 001 0 eng c
010			_a 2018008234
020			_a9780822370277 (hbk.)
020			_a0822370271 (hbk.)
020			_a9780822370352 (pbk.)
020			_a0822370352 (pbk.)
035			_a(OCoLC)1013524644 _z(OCoLC)1013498453 _z(OCoLC)1084427902
050			_aKZA1145 _b.M38 2018
100	1		_aMawani, Renisa, _d1970-
245	1	0	_aAcross oceans of law : _bthe Komagata Maru and jurisdiction in the time of empire / _cRenisa Mawani.
260			_aDurham : _bDuke University Press, _c2018.
300			_axv, 336 p. : _bill, maps.
490	1		_aGlobal and insurgent legalities
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 293-318) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction : currents and countercurrents of law and radicalism -- The free sea : a juridical space -- The ship as legal person -- Land, sea, and subjecthood -- Anticolonial vernaculars of indigeneity -- The fugitive sojourns of Gurdit Singh -- Epilogue : race, jurisdiction, and the free sea reconsidered.
520			_aIn 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 this book, the author 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 - the author 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, the author 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, the author traces British imperial power through racial, temporal, and legal contests and offers a novel method of writing colonial legal history.
600	1	4	_aGuradita Siṅgha, _d1859-1954.
610	2	4	_aKomagatamaru (Ship)
650		4	_aLaw of the sea _xHistory _y20th century.
651		4	_aCanada _xEmigration and immigration _xHistory _y20th century.
830		0	_aGlobal and insurgent legalities.
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