From policemen to revolutionaries : : a Sikh diaspora in global Shanghai, 1885-1945 / / Yin Cao.

• VerfasserIn: Cao, Yin (Historian),
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Global Social History 30/10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 215 pages) :; illustrations, maps.

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Establishing the Sikh Police Unit in Shanghai -- The Journey of Isser Singh: A Sikh Migrant in Shanghai -- Kill Buddha Singh: The Indian Nationalist Movement in Shanghai, 1914–1927 -- A Lone Islet or A Center of Communications? Shanghai Sikhs and The Indian National Army -- Conclusion: Circulation, Networks, and Subalterns in Global History.