Bains receives honourable mention for role in co-editing book

A book about the Komagata Maru incident has received an honourable mention in the Canadian Studies Network’s 2020 prize for the Best Edited Collection in Canadian Studies.

The jury gave an honourable mention to Unmooring the Komagata Maru: Charting Colonial Trajectories, edited by Rita Kaur Dhamoon, Davina Bhandar, Renisa Mawani and Satwinder Kaur Bains, published by UBC Press.

Satwinder Bains, director of the South Asian Studies Insitute at UFV, was one of the co-editors of the book.