Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations viii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Chronology of Events xi
6. Introduction 3
7. The Politics of Anticolonial Resistance in the Journey of the Komagata Maru
8. Right to the Empire? 35
9. The Last Stretch of the Journey 56
10. The Resistance of Indian Migrants 76
11. Migration Regimes in Colonial Contexts
12. The Komagata Maru as Event 95
13. Borders, Boats, and Brown Bodies 121
14. Temporary Arrivals 141
15. Colonial Temporalities of Memory and Cultural Production
16. The Komagata Maru Incident as Described in Two Japanese Works 163
17. (Mis)Representing the Komagata Maru in Indian Print Cultures 179
18. The Time and Sound of the Nautical Border 197
19. Disrupting Colonial Formations of Nation
20. When Home and Harem Collide 215
21. The Komagata Maru Recontextualized 244
22. Past Wrongs and a New National Imaginary 265
23. The Politics of Empire 280
24. Poems 290
25. Historical Figures Cited in the Chapters 297
26. BC Government Apology, May 23, 2008 309
27. Canadian Government Apology, May 18, 2016 310
28. Contributors 314
29. Index 318