Specters of Indigeneity in British-Indian Migration, 1914

Renisa Mawani

Canada's Immigration Act, The Indian Act

'native Canadian Indians', 'racial superiority and inferiority', 'status as a British subject', Anti-Asian Racism, artisans, B.C court, Bengal police, British Indian migration, British Indians, British officials, British subjects, colonial context, colonial perceptions, colonial power, colonial power relations, colonial violence, colonial-racial knowledges, colonized, colonizer, Continuous Journey, cultural signifiers, Deportation, equal rights, European supremacy, Europeans, Exclusion, exclusionary policies, government authorities, homeland, immigrant, Imperial, imperial citizens, imperial context, Imperial fraternity, Indigenous Peoples, Komagata Maru, land, legal status, legal test, lower court, migrant, Miss. Columbia, native, natural resources, newsprint, non-Europeans, non-Indigenous people, non-white, orders-in-council, Othering, Police Violence, Punjabi community, race, racial categorizations, racial exclusions, racial orders of governance, Racist Violence, Self-Determination, sovereignty, specter, spectral indigeneity, temporality, the Court of Appeal, the Crown, the Hindu Punch, The Pioneer, The Tribune, unskilled labourers, violence, white Britons, white settler colony, White Supremacy

Gandhi, Gurdit Singh, J. Edward Bird, K.C. Cassidy, Michel Foucault, Munshi Singh

Alberta, Asia, Australia, British Columbia, Calcutta, Canada, South Africa, South Asia, Vancouver, Western Canada