Diasporas and Transnationalisms

Anjali Gera Roy is a Professor in the Department of Humanities of Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, working on fiction, film and performance traditions of India, diasporas and Punjab. Ajaya Kumar Sahoo teaches at the Centre for Study of Indian Diaspora, University of Hyderabad. His research interests include international migration, South Asian diaspora, transnationalism, and religion.

1. Introduction: The journey of the Komagata Maru: national, transnational, diasporic Anjali Gera Roy and Ajaya K. Sahoo 2. Dissident mobilities: the Komagata Maru and Indian travellers in the Empire Pramod K. Nayar 3. The journey of Komagata Maru: conjuncture, memory and history Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty 4. Incorporating regional events into the nationalist narrative: the life of Gurdit Singh and the Komagata Maru episode in postcolonial India Darshan S. Tatla 5. Komagata Maru episode and the veteran Sikh British soldier’s revolt in the history of Indian nationalism Paromita Deb 6. Komagata Maru sails from the Far East: cartography of the Sikh diaspora within the British Empire Arunajeet Kaur 7. A century of miri piri: securing Sikh belonging in Canada Doris Jakobsh and Margaret Walton-Roberts 8. Remembering Komagata Maru: its many journeys, 1914–2014 Himadri Banerjee 9. Closely observed ships Suchetana Chattopadhyay 10. Immobile mobilities and free-flowing Sikh movements from Punjab Anjali Gera Roy