Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Labor and Political Migrations in the Age of Empire
2. The Rise of Indian Anticolonial: Politics in North America and
the "Making of a New World"
3. Anarchy, Surveillance, and Repressing the "Hindu" Menace
4. Imperial Immigration Policy, Citizenship, and Ships of
Revolution
5. Revolutionary Uprisings and Repressions during the First World
War
6."Hindu Conspiracies" from Lahore to San Francisco
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Seema Sohi is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.
"Echoes of Mutiny draws from archives rarely looked at seriously
and makes an argument that is deceptively simple. Sohi draws a
dialectical connection between Indian anticolonial radicalism in
North America with the growth of state repression in the United
States and in Canada. As these countries tightened the web against
Reds, it pushed many migrants to a much more radical consciousness
about their own status in the US and Canada, and as they went
in
a more radical direction it spurred the states of this region
toward policies of immigration restriction and state surveillance.
This Mobius strip of repression-radicalism whipped round and round
spinning the
migrants toward a more radical position on Indian nationalism than
nationalists who remained in British India, and pushing the state
to bar migrants from Asia altogether."--Vijay Prashad, author of
Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today
"In Echoes of Mutiny, Seema Sohi provides us with an expansive
account of the radicalism-and the repression -of a group of Indian
anti-imperialists who found a short-lived home in the United States
of the early 20th century. While historians of South Asia have
often treated these expatriate radicals as a small overseas outpost
of the Indian independence movement, Sohi draws on a range of
archival evidence to make a bolder argument: that members and
associates of the Ghadar party were simultaneously contesting
British colonialism and U.S. racialization and exclusion-and that
their experiences produced a vision of revolutionary change that
was global rather
than merely national in its scope...Sohi's work is transnational
history at its best: it is as dense, complex, and deeply researched
as it is beautifully written."--Vivek Bald, author of Bengali
Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America
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