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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796657003321

Autore

Cao Yin (Historian)

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden : , : Brill, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

90-04-34407-1

Descrizione fisica

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

Collana

Studies in global social history ; ; v. 30

Studies in global migration history ; ; v. 10

Disciplina

908.82946

Soggetti

Sikh nationalism

Sikhs - China - Shanghai - History

Shanghai (China) History

Shanghai (China) Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.