"Chartered by railway contractor and purported rubber planter Gurdit Singh, the Komagata Maru and its passengers were denied entry into Canada and two months later were deported to Calcutta. This Horizons Conference Webinar Series brings you Dr. Renisa Mawani who retells this ship’s well-known story through her book: Across Oceans of Law.
Drawing on ""oceans as method"", which is a mode of thinking and writing that repositions land and sea, Dr. Mawani examines the historical and conceptual stakes of situating histories of Indian migration within maritime worlds."