KOMAGATA MARU INCIDENT
1.The KomagataMaru incident involved a Japanese steamship, the Komagata Maru, that sailed from Hong Kong to Shanghai, China; Yokohama, Japan; and then to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in 1914, carrying 376 passengers from Punjab, India.
2-The 356 of passengers were not allowed to land in Canada, and the ship was forced to return to India.. The passengers consisted of 340 Sikhs, 24Muslims, and 12 Hindus, all British subjects.
3-This was one of several incidents in the history of early 20th century involving exclusion laws in Canada and the United States designed to keep out immigrantsof Asian origin.
4-The Komagata Maru incident was widely cited at the time by Indian groups to highlight discrepancies in Canadian immigration laws.
5-Further, the inflamed passions in the wake of the incident were widely cultivated by the Indian revolutionary organisation, the Ghadar Party, to rally support for its aims.
6-In a number of meetings ranging from California in 1914 to the Indian diaspora, prominent Ghadarites including Barkatullah, Tarak Nath Das, and Sohan Singh used the incident as a rallying point to recruit members for the Ghadar movement, most notably in support of promulgating plans to coordinate a massive uprising in India.
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