Komagata Maru And Ghadr Party Analysis
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Critical Summary of "The Komagata Maru and Ghadr Party: Past and Present of a historic Challenge to Canada 's Exclusion of Immigrants from India" by Hugh J.M. Johnston.
Introduction
In this article, Johnston provides a detailed outline of the Komagata Maru event. His analysis is based on official accounts from both Canadian and Indian sources as well as live interviews with witnesses both in Canada and India. He explains the lives of many key players before, during and after the events of the Komagata Maru and Ghadr Party and how the two were linked (Johnston, June 2013).
Background
The Komagata Maru incident involved a Japanese steamship, Komagata Maru, which sailed to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada carrying 376 passengers in 1914, from Punjab, British India. 24 of them were admitted to Canada, but the rest were forced to return to India with the ship as an incident involving exclusion laws in Canada designed to keep out …show more content…
For example, Gurmukh Singh Lalton was a passenger on the Komagata Maru who later became active in the Ghadr Party. Puran Singh (a classmate of Gurmukh from Ludhiana) was a leader on the Komagata Maru, as stores keeper throughout the voyage. Johnston claims to have interviewed Katar Singh Mehli – an ordinary passenger of the Komagata Maru, who was a village confine after he escaped imprisonment by going back to Punjab. He had determined to get to Canada or the United States to farm wheat – that reflected the initial ambition of most of the men on the ship as acquiring land in Canada. Gurdit Singh Sarhali chartered the Komagata Maru. He was the leader on board who incidentally turned the ship to a religion and political classroom by installation of a Sikh temple onboard. Ghadr Party sympathizers – Balwant Singh Khurdpur, Professor Maulana Barkatullah, and Bhagwan Singh Jakh spoke from that
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Critical Summary of "The Komagata Maru and Ghadr Party: Past and Present of a historic Challenge to Canada 's Exclusion of Immigrants from India" by Hugh J.M. Johnston.
Introduction
In this article, Johnston provides a detailed outline of the Komagata Maru event. His analysis is based on official accounts from both Canadian and Indian sources as well as live interviews with witnesses both in Canada and India. He explains the lives of many key players before, during and after the events of the Komagata Maru and Ghadr Party and how the two were linked (Johnston, June 2013).
Background
The Komagata Maru incident involved a Japanese steamship, Komagata Maru, which sailed to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada carrying 376 passengers in 1914, from Punjab, British India. 24 of them were admitted to Canada, but the rest were forced to return to India with the ship as an incident involving exclusion laws in Canada designed to keep out …show more content…
For example, Gurmukh Singh Lalton was a passenger on the Komagata Maru who later became active in the Ghadr Party. Puran Singh (a classmate of Gurmukh from Ludhiana) was a leader on the Komagata Maru, as stores keeper throughout the voyage. Johnston claims to have interviewed Katar Singh Mehli – an ordinary passenger of the Komagata Maru, who was a village confine after he escaped imprisonment by going back to Punjab. He had determined to get to Canada or the United States to farm wheat – that reflected the initial ambition of most of the men on the ship as acquiring land in Canada. Gurdit Singh Sarhali chartered the Komagata Maru. He was the leader on board who incidentally turned the ship to a religion and political classroom by installation of a Sikh temple onboard. Ghadr Party sympathizers – Balwant Singh Khurdpur, Professor Maulana Barkatullah, and Bhagwan Singh Jakh spoke from that