Introduction: Itinerant Subjects of Empire: Unmooring the Komagata Maru / Davina Bhandar and Rita Kaur Dhamoon
Part 1: The Politics of Anti-Colonial Resistance in the Journey of the Komagata Maru
1 Right to the Empire?: British Imperial Citizenship before the First World War / Ian Christopher Fletcher
2 The Last Stretch of the Journey: The Komagata Maru, War-Time Political Radicalism, and Migrant Workers from Punjab in Calcutta / Suchetana Chattopadhyay
3 Resistance Struggles: Facing Lies, Deception, and Racism / Satwinder Kaur Bains
Part 2: Migration Regimes in Colonial Contexts
4 The Komagata Maru as Event: Legal Transformations in Migration Regimes / Radhika Mongia
5 Borders, Boats, and Brown Bodies: Reading Tamil “Irregular Arrivals” through the History of the Komagata Maru / Nadia Hasan, Sailaja Krishnamurti, Omme-Salma Rahemtullah, Nayani Thiyagarajah, and Nishant Upadhyay
6 Temporary Arrivals: The Komagata Maru Passengers and Migrant Labour / Davina Bhandar
Part 3: Colonial Temporalities of Memory and Cultural Production
7 The Komagata Maru Incident as Described in Two Japanese Works / Kaori Mizukami
8 (Mis)Representing the Komagata Maru in Indian Print Cultures / Irina Spector-Marks
9 The Time and Sound of the Nautical Border / Ayesha Hameed
Part 4: Disrupting Colonial Formations of Nation
10 When Home and Harem Collide: The "Hindu Women’s Question": A Mass Spectacle of the Canadian Nation, Family, and Modernity / Enakshi Dua
11 The Komagata Maru Recontextualized: Memory, History, and Diasporic Sikh Subnationalism in Anita Rau Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? / Rajender Kaur
12 Past Wrongs and a New National Imaginary: Remembering the Komagata Maru Incident / Alia Somani
13 The Politics of Empire: Minor History on a Global Scale / Renisa Mawani
14 Poems: Still Chanting Denied Shores / Tariq Malik
Appendix 1: Historical Figures cited in the Chapters
Appendix 2: BC Government Apology, May 23, 2008
Appendix 3: Canadian Government Apology, May 18, 2016
List of Contributors; Index
