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Johnston, Hugh The Voyage of the Komagata Maru The Sikh Challenge to Canada's Color Bar
Delhi, India Oxford University Press 1979 0195611640 / 9780195611649 First Edition Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Light edge wear, some scuffing to DJ ; DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. A tight solid book. ; B&W Photographs; 0.63 x 8.81 x 5.75 Inches; 162 pages; "in May 1914, 400 Sikhs left for British Columbia by chartered ship, resolved to claim their rights to equal treatment with white citizens of the British Empire and force entry into Canada. They were anchored off Vancouver for over two months, enduring extreme physical privation and harassment by immigration officials, but defying federal deportation orders even when the Canadian Government to enforce them with a gunboat."...
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