The United States of India : anticolonial literature and transnational refraction Introduction: an Indian in Washington Race Across Empires: Lajpat Rais The United States of America The Indian Plot: Agnes Smedley and American Anti colonialism Killing Kipling: Dhan Gopal Mukerji and Americas India The Dark Alliance: Refracting India in W.E.B. Du Bois Dark Princess Uncle Sham: Katherine Mayos Mother India and Parodic Anti Imperialism Afterword. Reconstructs exchanges and interactions among networks of expatriate Indian and American authors as they struggled in similar yet distinct ways for an anticolonial future attempting to reimagine and reshape the relationship between the U.S. and India during and immediately following World War I