| From Policemen to Revolutionaries: A Sikh Diaspora in Global Shanghai, 1885-1945 Contributor(s): Cao, Yin (Author) |
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ISBN: 900434408X ISBN-13: 9789004344082 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $132.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Social History - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration |
| Series: Studies in Global Social History / Studies in Global Migrati |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (0.97 lbs) 226 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |