[Assam] History: Voting Rights for Asians in Canada ; Guru's 100 years of Indian presence in North America

Tue Oct 10 18:02:14 PDT 2006

Mukul-da,

  the ship was renamed Komagata Maru (Guru Nanak Jahaz)  --from the weblink below.

  This is new info about Gurkhas in HongKong!

  Umesh

mc mahant <mikemahant at hotmail.com> wrote:
                        <called" Koma.gata..Maru" (Guru Nanak Ship) >   But-- Nothing to do with Guru Nanak Devji.
  Maru - in Japanese =Island. All Japanese Ships have a name ending with Maru. Why So?
   Chartered by Hongkong's retired Sikh policemen to Go-East to West and settle - just as Cantonese were. Sikhs were brought in as Trusted policemen by Brit Col onists to keep Cantonese in check - after 2 Opium Wars and Sikhs' not joining 1857 Sepoy Mutiny in India. But later Sikhs fellinto disfavour. Gurkhas were brought in hordes to Assam(1826+), and to Hongkong to take over from Sikhs. Sikhs became disgruntled. Now Hongkong Chinese are pressurizing the last Gurkhas to be out!

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From:  umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com>
Reply-To:  umesh.sh05 at post.harvard.edu
To:  assam at assamnet.org
Subject:  Re: [Assam] History: Voting Rights for Asians in Canada ;Guru's 100 years of Indian presence in North America
Date:  Mon, 25 Sep 2006 05:09:55 +0100 (BST)

                 1907     Sikhs were denied the right to vote when the government of B.C. passed a bill to disfranchise all natives of India not born of Anglo-Saxon parents.
Foundation stone of the Gurdwara for Khalsa Diwan Society was laid at 1866 West Second Avenue, Vancouver.
A contingent of 901 Sikhs arrived on the Canadian Pacific steamer Monteagle in Vancouver on September 12.
Race riots were held in Vancouver in which the Orientals and the Sikhs were targeted.     
http://home.istar.ca/~cye/sikhs%20in%20Canada.html

     It is ironic that within 100 years of British Columbia 
(B.C.) state in Canada (where Vancouver is based)banning Sikhs/Indians/Asians of not voting - there was a guy of Indian origin became its Prime Minister/Chief Minister/Governor - the one before the current one -as my host told me.   

     Umesh

umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com> wrote:
     Today I again went to the Sikh temple/Gurudwara -food
was good, surprisingly toilets were also equipped with
Indian style water taps and mugs (perhaps for retired
parents of recent immigrants from India). Khalsa Diwan
Society which was set up in 1906 -100 years ago and
had constructed this temple is celebrating its 100
years. I did meet a retired mona Sikh (without beard
or turban) (Mr Ravinder Johal) the other day, whose
grand father had come to Canada in 1906 - 100 years
ago!!

Today I   
saw a snow white mountain peak from the temple
precincts.

It seems like Spirit of St Louis ship (full of German
Jews) which was returned by USA 1930s --there was an
Indian ship called Koma...Maru (Guru Nanak Ship) which
was sent back by Canadians in 1914 -whose memory
plaque was at the temple. 

http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php?title=Komagata_Maru

After coming outside a guy with Einsteinian hairstyle
asked me a question at the bus stop --that in the next
post.

Any comments?

Umesh

--- umesh sharma wrote:

> 
> > 
> >
>
http://ia.rediff.com/news/2006/sep/20bsp.htm?q=sp&file=.htm
> > 
> > some might like it. I have met quite a few --from
> > real go-getters to extremely tapori kinds
> (including
> > an ex-housemate in DC who went to India twice in
> > April 2006 -and also will a trip to   
Canada thrown
> in
> > -all on stolen/borrowed money ---in just one
> > month)!! 
> > 
> >Today I went to North America's first
> Sikh/Hindu/Indian
> > temple - the Gurudwara on 8000 Ross Street,
> > Vancouver . It opned its doors nealry 100 years
> ago
> > in 1908 -then at 1866 west 2nd Ave-constructed
> then
> by
> > Sikh soldiers in British army who made Vancouver
> > their home. Google search would give you more info
> > 
> 
> A very peaceful place with a large hall with
> triangles
> arranged over each other to make the dome-like roof.
> Food was free as always in Langars. The tea with its
> clove and black pepper taste reminded me of the
> similar excellent one I had at Hemkund Sahib
> Gurudwara 4500 meters above sea level in the
> Himalayas
> in 1991 Sep--Valley of Flowers is just   
adjoining -on
> the other side. Guru Gobind -in whose memory they
> were
> singing today "Hey Gobind Hey Gopal" - had meditated
> there it is believed. 
> 
> It was my first visit to a Sikh Gurudwara since 2000
> summer -in Delhi's famous Seesh Ganj Sahib (Sheesh
> means Head) --here the 9th Guru Teg Bahadur was
> beheaded for not converting to Islam . I had bought
> a
> thick "Kada" there since my earlier one had broken
> and
> left a permannet scar on my right wrist --while
> falling from motorcycle trying to avoid a calf who
> suddenly jumped across the road .
> 
> > Umesh
> > 
> 
> 
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