ABSTRACT
Celebratory perspectives on the autonomy of economic relations from systems of control following the globalization of capitalist production and exchange are countered by new forms of sovereignty that are both supranational and national. Although new mobilities research has disengaged mobility from the west, its uncovering of western and non-western elite and non-elite circuits of mobility, the acceleration and expansion of mobility that is visible across class, gender, ethnicity and nation has not been accompanied by the cessation of differential mobilities. The journey of the Komagata Maru was undertaken by subjects of the British Empire who found themselves blocked by the Dominion of Canada aspiring to the status of full nationhood and who came into contact with Indian intellectuals and revolutionaries who mobilized them to imagine the Indian nation. The decline in the nation state's sovereignty is attributed to the rise of global capitalism and free market economies as well as transnational formations.
