02593cam a2200337 i 4500 on1013524644 OCoLC ta 210609s2018 ncuab b 001 0 eng c 2018008234 9780822370277 (hbk.) 0822370271 (hbk.) 9780822370352 (pbk.) 0822370352 (pbk.) (OCoLC)1013524644 (OCoLC)1013498453 (OCoLC)1084427902 KZA1145 .M38 2018 Mawani, Renisa, 1970- Across oceans of law : the Komagata Maru and jurisdiction in the time of empire / Renisa Mawani. Durham : Duke University Press, 2018. xv, 336 p. : ill, maps. Global and insurgent legalities Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-318) and index. Introduction : 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. 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 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. Guradita Siṅgha, 1859-1954. Komagatamaru (Ship) Law of the sea History 20th century. Canada Emigration and immigration History 20th century. Global and insurgent legalities. lcc BK 0 0 0 0 PNLIB PNLIB GEN 2021-06-17 KZA1145 .M38 2018 PNLIB21062384 2021-06-17 2021-06-17 BK 2571 2571