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The Komagata Maru and the Ghadr Party: Past and Present Pspects of an Historic Challenge to Canada’s Exclusion of Immigrants from India
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Johnston, Hugh |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | The early history of South Asians in British Columbia and Canada features two dramatic stories of lasting meaning, even though it is centred on what was an exceedingly small and marginalized immigrant community. The first concerns the Punjabi passengers of the immigrant ship the Komagata Maru who made a valiant but futile bid for legal admission to Canada in the summer of 1914 (Figure 1).1 The second concerns the revolutionary Ghadr (Mutiny) Party, formed by South Asians in San Francisco in 1913, which attempted and desperately failed to instigate an Indian Army-led rebellion against British rule during the First World War.2 This was a party with active support from the pioneer population of Punjabi Sikhs and other South Asians living, working, and studying in |
| Starting Page | 9 |
| Ending Page | 31 |
| Page Count | 23 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.14288/bcs.v0i178.183768 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/download/183768/184043 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i178.183768 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
