From Policemen to Revolutionaries: A Sikh Diaspora in Global Shanghai, 1885-1945

by 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 formation of the Sikh community in Shanghai, eventually making this Chinese city one of the overseas hubs of the Indian nationalist struggle. By...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 900434408X
• ISBN13: 9789004344082
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"