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

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...

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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.
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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.