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Across Oceans of Law
The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire
Taschenbuch von Renisa Mawani
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
Renisa Mawani
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Recht
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780822370352
ISBN-10: 0822370352
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Mawani, Renisa
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Books on Demand GmbH, In de Tarpen 42, D-22848 Norderstedt, info@bod.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Renisa Mawani
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.08.2018
Gewicht: 0,513 kg
Artikel-ID: 110600068
Über den Autor
Renisa Mawani
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Recht
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780822370352
ISBN-10: 0822370352
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Mawani, Renisa
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Books on Demand GmbH, In de Tarpen 42, D-22848 Norderstedt, info@bod.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Renisa Mawani
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.08.2018
Gewicht: 0,513 kg
Artikel-ID: 110600068
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