Komagata Maru episode and the veteran Sikh British soldier's revolt in the history of Indian nationalism

The paper discusses the role of the rural Sikh soldier passenger in the Komagata Maru journey in 1914. During the First World War, it generated widespread unrest amongst Sikh soldiers of the British army. The discriminatory racist treatment meted out to the military peasantry instigated radical Ghad...

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Published inSouth Asian diaspora Vol. 8; no. 2; pp. 147 - 154
Main Author Deb, Paromita
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 02.07.2016
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Anti-colonialism
Armed forces
Colonialism
Consciousness
Historiography
India
Indian nationalism
Komagata Maru episode
Loyalty
Military personnel
Nationalism
Peasants
politics of remembering and forgetting
Racism
Rural areas
Rural communities
Sikhs
Soldiers
Subaltern identities
United Kingdom
veteran British soldier
World War I
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Summary:The paper discusses the role of the rural Sikh soldier passenger in the Komagata Maru journey in 1914. During the First World War, it generated widespread unrest amongst Sikh soldiers of the British army. The discriminatory racist treatment meted out to the military peasantry instigated radical Ghadar revolutionaries to challenge their colonial essentializing notions of loyalty. The paper critiques traditional historiography by re-evaluating contemporary Punjabi anti-colonial consciousness, and the relevance of such provincial movements. By tracing specific historicities of subaltern nationalist resistances, it intends to enrich our understanding of the larger, synthetic mosaic of narratives in the historiography of Indian nationalism.
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ISSN:1943-8192
1943-8184
1943-8184
DOI:10.1080/19438192.2016.1165928