10/8/2021 Unmooring The Komagata Maru: Charting Colonial Trajectories | BC Studies https://bcstudies.com/book_film_review/unmooring-the-komagata-maru-charting-colonial-trajectories/ 1/7 UNMOORING THE KOMAGATA MARU: CHARTING COLONIAL TRAJECTORIES By Rita Kaur Dhamoon, Davina Bhandar, Renisa Mawani, and Satwinder Kaur Bains February 2, 2021 Review By Dharitri Bhattacharjee From food (Valenze, 2012) to crops (Ali 2020, Rappaport 2019) to commodities (Curry-Machado, 2013) to digital cultures (Punathambekar and Mohan, 2019) and to empires (Bayly, 2003; Hopkins, 2003) there has been a steady scholarly commitment to reimagining the relationship between the global/universal and the local, even “theorizing the local” (Wolf 2012). Unmooring The Komagata Maru. Charting Trajectories, edited by Rita Kaur Dhamoon, Davina Bhandar, Renisa Mawani and Satwinder Kaur Bains, offers an interdisciplinary lens with which to re-engage the “local” history of the Komagata Maru and emplace it within contemporary understanding of immigration and racial exclusion on a “global” scale. In joining a growing body of transnational texts, Unmooring The Komagata Maru enriches the field by its methodology of interrogating a singular event through time, space and a vast array of disciplinary frameworks. SS Komagata Maru sailed to the western coast of the Dominion of Canada in 1914. Its 376 passengers were deemed illegal, detained and then 340 of them were forced to return to Calcutta. While the incident created ripples at the time, it receded in popular memory. In the last few decades REVIEW