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Broken Passages And Broken Promises: Reconstructing The Komagata Maru And Air India Cases, Alia Rehana Somani
Broken Passages And Broken Promises: Reconstructing The Komagata Maru And Air India Cases, Alia Rehana Somani
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My dissertation examines two events in Canada’s past that have played formative roles in the debate about the place of the South Asian diaspora within the Canadian nation. The first is the 1914 Komagata Maru incident, in which 352 British subjects of South Asian origin aboard a Japanese ship – the Komagata Maru – were denied entry into Canada and forced to return to India. The second is the 1985 bombing of Air India Flight 182, an event that claimed the lives of almost 300 Canadian citizens, most of South Asian origin, who were traveling from Canada to India. My …
Myth, Language, Empire: The East India Company And The Construction Of British India, 1757-1857, Nida Sajid
Myth, Language, Empire: The East India Company And The Construction Of British India, 1757-1857, Nida Sajid
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My thesis investigates the discursive strategies employed by the East India Company during the early colonial period to legitimize mercantile imperialism as an act of preservation for the fast-disintegrating political order that was the Mughal empire in India. By arguing that the interrelationship of myth, history and archive was essential to networks of trade and the establishment of political domination, my thesis offers a new reading of the representations of the political debates surrounding the Company’s scandals and imperial ambitions in the English public sphere. It further demonstrates the centrality of the India question in defining the contours of some …