From policemen to revolutionaries : a Sikh diaspora in global Shanghai, 1885-1945 / Yin Cao.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cao, Yin (Historian), author.

Series:

Studies in Global Social History 30/10.

Studies in global social history ; v. 30

Studies in global migration history ; v. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sikh nationalism.

Sikhs--China--Shanghai--History.

Sikhs.

Shanghai (China)--History.

Shanghai (China).

Shanghai (China)--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 215 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, [2017]

Summary:

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 formation of the Sikh community in Shanghai, eventually making this Chinese city one of the overseas hubs of the Indian nationalist struggle. By adopting a translocal approach, this study elaborates on how the flow of Sikh emigrants, largely regarded as subalterns, initially strengthened but eventually unhinged British colonial rule in East and Southeast Asia.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Establishing the Sikh Police Unit in Shanghai

The Journey of Isser Singh: A Sikh Migrant in Shanghai

Kill Buddha Singh: The Indian Nationalist Movement in Shanghai, 1914–1927

A Lone Islet or A Center of Communications? Shanghai Sikhs and The Indian National Army

Conclusion: Circulation, Networks, and Subalterns in Global History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-34407-1

OCLC:

1063943561

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004344075 DOI