"In Echoes of Mutiny, Seema Sohi provides us with an expansive account of the radicalism-and the repression -of a group of Indian anti-imperialists who found a short-lived home in the United States of the early 20th century. This Mobius strip of repression-radicalism whipped round and round spinning the migrants toward a more radical position on Indian nationalism than nationalists who remained in British India, and pushing the state to bar migrants from Asia altogether." - Vijay Prashad, author of Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today As these countries tightened the web against Reds, it pushed many migrants to a much more radical consciousness about their own status in the US and Canada, and as they went in a more radical direction it spurred the states of this region toward policies of immigration restriction and state surveillance. Sohi draws a dialectical connection between Indian anticolonial radicalism in North America with the growth of state repression in the United States and in Canada. " Echoes of Mutiny draws from archives rarely looked at seriously and makes an argument that is deceptively simple. Indian migrants came to understand their struggles against racial exclusion and political repression in North America as part of a broader movement against white supremacy and colonialism and articulated radical visions of anticolonialism that called not only for the end of British rule in India but the forging of democracies across the world. immigration and antiradical laws as well as the expansion of state power in early twentieth century India and America. Through extensive archival research, Sohi uncovers the dialectical relationship between the rise of Indian anticolonialism and state repression in North America and demonstrates how Indian anticolonialists served as catalysts for the implementation of restrictive U.S. Echoes of Mutiny provides an in-depth and transnational look at the deeply intertwined relationship between anti-Asian racism, Indian anticolonialism, and state antiradicalism in early twentieth century U.S. They symbolized the hope of the world's racialized subjects and the fears of those who worried about the global disorder they could portend. and British officials to repress anticolonial revolt. Hoping to become an important symbol for those battling against racial oppression and colonial subjugation across the world, Indian anticolonialists also provoked a global inter-imperial collaboration between U.S. In the process, they developed an international anticolonial consciousness that boldly confronted the British and American empires. How did thousands of Indians who migrated to the Pacific Coast of North America during the early twentieth century come to forge an anticolonial movement that British authorities claimed nearly toppled their rule in India during the First World War? Seema Sohi traces how Indian labor migrants, students, and intellectual activists who journeyed across the globe seeking to escape the exploitative and politically repressive policies of the British Raj, linked restrictive immigration policies and political repression in North America to colonial subjugation at home. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law.
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