{"id":115199,"date":"2021-06-28T18:51:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T13:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=115199"},"modified":"2021-06-28T18:51:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T13:21:18","slug":"komagata-maru-incident","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/komagata-maru-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Komagata Maru incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Background:\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On May 23, 1914, the Komagata Maru reached Vancouver\u2019s\u00a0harbour\u00a0via Hong Kong and Japan carrying 376 prospective South Asian immigrants who hoped to settle in Canada. Their arrival provoked massive opposition from the\u00a0local population\u00a0led to force the ship\u2019s return to India.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In response to this backlash, the local South Asian community came together to fight the deportation of the passengers.\u00a0But\u00a0the community was unsuccessful and the vast majority of the passengers were forced to leave.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Reason:\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In the years prior to the Komagata Maru\u2019s arrival, the Canadian government placed limitations on South Asian immigration through racially restrictive policies.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background:\u00a0On May 23, 1914, the Komagata Maru reached Vancouver\u2019s\u00a0harbour\u00a0via Hong Kong and Japan carrying 376 prospective South Asian immigrants who hoped to settle in Canada. Their arrival provoked massive opposition from the\u00a0local population\u00a0led to force the ship\u2019s return to India.\u00a0\u00a0 In response to this backlash, the local South Asian community came together to fight the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/komagata-maru-incident\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Komagata Maru incident<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-115199","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/115199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/115199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}