India has been intricately linked with the American story, even before it was conceived. Christopher Columbus thought he was looking for India when he rolled up to the Bahamas. Columbus, who died in penury, was later held up as the “founder” of America because the Americans needed a non-British origin story so they decided an Italian sailing under the Spanish flag was the “first American”, to the point that the indigenous people of the US continued to be referred to as Indian. The real Indians arrived later, most famously Bhicaji Framji Balsara, a Parsi gentleman from Mumbai who argued he should be naturalised as a “free white man.”

Later in 1923, Bhagat Singh Thind, a World War 1 veteran – one of the millions of Indian soldiers upon which back the Allies won two World Wars – argued tha

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