Introduction: Itinerant Subjects of Empire: Unmooring the Komagata Maru / Davina Bhandar and Rita Kaur Dhamoon

Part 1: The Politics of Anti-Colonial Resistance in the Journey of the Komagata Maru

1 Right to the Empire?: British Imperial Citizenship before the First World War / Ian Christopher Fletcher

2 The Last Stretch of the Journey: The Komagata Maru, War-Time Political Radicalism, and Migrant Workers from Punjab in Calcutta / Suchetana Chattopadhyay

3 Resistance Struggles: Facing Lies, Deception, and Racism / Satwinder Kaur Bains

Part 2: Migration Regimes in Colonial Contexts

4 The Komagata Maru as Event: Legal Transformations in Migration Regimes / Radhika Mongia

5 Borders, Boats, and Brown Bodies: Reading Tamil “Irregular Arrivals” through the History of the Komagata Maru / Nadia Hasan, Sailaja Krishnamurti, Omme-Salma Rahemtullah, Nayani Thiyagarajah, and Nishant Upadhyay

6 Temporary Arrivals: The Komagata Maru Passengers and Migrant Labour / Davina Bhandar

Part 3: Colonial Temporalities of Memory and Cultural Production

7 The Komagata Maru Incident as Described in Two Japanese Works / Kaori Mizukami

8 (Mis)Representing the Komagata Maru in Indian Print Cultures / Irina Spector-Marks

9 The Time and Sound of the Nautical Border / Ayesha Hameed

Part 4: Disrupting Colonial Formations of Nation

10 When Home and Harem Collide: The "Hindu Women’s Question": A Mass Spectacle of the Canadian Nation, Family, and Modernity / Enakshi Dua

11 The Komagata Maru Recontextualized: Memory, History, and Diasporic Sikh Subnationalism in Anita Rau Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? / Rajender