Komagata Maru incident

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The Komagata Maru incident was an immigration dispute in which passengers aboard the Japanese steamship Komagata Maru, also called Guru Nanak Jahaz by its passengers, were denied entry in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on 23 May 1914. Most of the 376 passengers (340 Sikhs, 24 Muslims and 12 Hindus from Punjab province, British India) were denied entry despite being British subjects under Canada's continuous journey regulation, due to suspected links to revolutionaries in India. Most of the Muslims were from the Shapur District of western Punjab, now in Pakistan. Otherwise, the passengers were from farming villages and districts in central Punjab. There were three distinct groups: those from Doaba, north of the Sutlej River; those from Malwa, south of the Sutlej; and those from Majha, west of the Beas River. A large contingent came from Gurdit Singh’s Majha region and an even larger one from the Malwa region of his two principal lieutenants. Much smaller was the group from Doaba...

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