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From Policemen to Revolutionaries.
From Policemen to Revolutionaries uncovers the less-known story of Sikh emigrants in Shanghai in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yin Cao argues that the cross-border circulation of personnel and knowledge across the British colonial and the Sikh diasporic networks, facilitated the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
BRILL,
2017.
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| Colección: | Studies in Global Migration History Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; From Policemen to Revolutionaries: A Sikh Diaspora in Global Shanghai, 1885-1945; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Sikh Migration in the Context of Global Migration; Shanghai in the Translocal Networks; Revisiting Sikh Diaspora and British Imperial History; Rescuing Shanghai Sikhs from Nation; Sources and Structure; 1 Establishing the Sikh Police Unit in Shanghai; Hong Kong as the Reference; The Rise and Decline of the Localization Policy in the SMP; A Martial Race in Motion; "They were Unsuitable for Shanghai": Rejecting the Sikh Scheme.
- New Bottle with Old Wine: Revival of the Sikh SchemeConclusion; 2 The Journey of Isser Singh: A Sikh Migrant in Shanghai; A Peasant's Son in the Punjab; Optimizing the Migration Plan; The Road to Shanghai; Accommodating the Sikhs; Policing Hongkou; "A Man Who Gives Considerable Trouble"; An Unending End; Conclusion; 3 Kill Buddha Singh: The Indian Nationalist Movement in Shanghai, 1914-1927; Go to North America!; The Rise of the Ghadar Party; The Politicization of Sikhs in Shanghai; Turning to the Left; From Hankou to Shanghai: The Ghadar Hubs in China; "I kill Him Because He was a Bad Man."
- The Rise of a Surveillance NetworkConclusion; 4 A Lone Islet or A Center of Communications? Shanghai Sikhs and The Indian National Army; The Birth of the INA and the Reconciliation of Shanghai Sikhs; The INA in Crisis and the Hardship of Shanghai Sikhs; Subhas Chandra Bose and the Total Mobilization; The Mobilization of the Sikhs in Shanghai; The End of a Legend; Conclusion; Conclusion: Circulation, Networks, and Subalterns in Global History; Bibliography; Index.