Josh sohan singh (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 81 pages. Ex-library. DJ worn. Text lightly tanned.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. 5-9/16" x 8-3/4", vii + 120pp + 5pp halftones on coated stock. Printed on acidic groundwood paper and bound in sewn signatures in blue buckram cloth boards. Jacket is lost. Minor shelf wear, edge wear to boards. Binding is square and tight. Previous owner's name in ink on front free end paper. Pages are tanned but clean and unmarked.…

BINDING - Hardcover. Zustand: CONDITION - Used/ Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Jacket - Fair. with some wear. 1st Edition. Volume 1 - 1977. 310 Pages; Volume 2 - 1978. 355 Pages. Modern End Papers. External Wear.

orig. wrappers. Zustand: Some wear. Good. 21x14cm, vi,120,(3) pp. On the abortive attempt made by 376 Punjabis to emigrate to Canada on board the Japanese steamship Komagata Maru. Only 24 were admitted, the remaining 352 were forced to return to India. ["This was one of several incidents in the history of early 20th century involving exclusion laws in both Canada and the United States designed to keep out immigrants of only Asian origin.., Komagata Maru arrived in Calcutta on September 27. Upon entry into the harbour, the ship was stopped by a British gunboat, and the passengers were placed under guard. The government of the British Raj saw the men on Komagata Maru not only as self-confessed lawbreakers, but also as dangerous political agitators. When the ship docked at Budge Budge, the police went to arrest Baba Gurdit Singh and the 20 or so other men that they saw as leaders. He resisted arrest, a friend of his assaulted a policeman and a general riot ensued. Shots were fired, 19 of the passengers were killed. Some escaped, but the remainder were arrested and imprisoned or sent to their villages and kept under village arrest for the duration of the First World War. This incident became known as the Budge Budge riot.., 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. In a number of meetings...used the incident as a rallying point to recruit members for the Ghadar movement, most notably in most notably in support of promulgating plans to coordinate a massive uprising in India..," - wikipedia]. 3pp photoplates. (illustrator).…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Reprint. 124 pages. References. Bibliography. Black and white illlustrations. "This story of the Komagata Maru is based on the primary source material which I collected from the City Archives, Vancouver , British Columbia." - from Preface. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding fragile but intact. Chip missing from base of spine. …