{"product_id":"punjabi-rebels-of-the-columbia-river-the-global-fight-for-indian-independence-and-citizenship-paperback","title":"Punjabi Rebels of the Columbia River: The Global Fight for Indian Independence and Citizenship - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohanna Ogden\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Oregon is commonly perceived to have little, let alone notable, South Asian history. Yet in the early 1900s Oregon was at the center of two entwined quests for Indian independence and civic belonging that rocked the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePunjabi Rebels of the Columbia River\u003c\/i\u003e traces the stories of the radical Indian independence organization known as Ghadar and Bhagat Singh Thind's era-defining US Supreme Court citizenship case. Ghadar sought the overthrow of India's British colonizers while Thind utilized sanctioned legal channels to do so. Despite widely differing strategies, both the movement and the man were targeted, often in coordination, by the highest levels of the US and British governments. The empires' united message: India would not be an independent country and Indians could not be citizens. In the decades that followed, it was a verdict Indians refused to abide. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Johanna Ogden's detailed history of migrants' experience expands the time frame, geographic boundaries, and knowledge of the conditions and contributions of Indians in North America. It is the story of a people's awakening amid a rich community of international workers in an age of nationalist uprisings. To understand why one of the smallest western Indian settlements became a resistance center, \u003ci\u003ePunjabi Rebels\u003c\/i\u003e mines the colonial underpinnings of labor, race, and place-making and their regional and global connections, rendering a history of whiteness and labor as much as of Indian-ness and migration. The first work to rejoin the lived experience of Thind and Ghadar activists, \u003ci\u003ePunjabi Rebels\u003c\/i\u003e complicates our understanding not just of the global fight for Indian political rights but of multi-racial democracy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohanna Ogden (MA, University of British Columbia) is an independent historian and local activist based in Portland. She has published multiple articles in \u003ci\u003eOregon Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, including \"Ghadar, Historical Silences, and Notions of Belonging,\" which received the Oregon Historical Society's Joel Palmer Award, and has spoken extensively across the Pacific Northwest and in India.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 25, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763600785696,"sku":"9781962645119","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/fd663e23ea66017e60b19a520374ed71.webp?v=1780236534","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/punjabi-rebels-of-the-columbia-river-the-global-fight-for-indian-independence-and-citizenship-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}