page_title: Sakharam Ganesh Pandit
hierarchical_section_title: Sakharam Ganesh Pandit
caption_attribution_description: English: This flyer advertises a lecture being given on Friday, July 8th, 1910 in Kilbourn, WI by Sakharam Ganesh Pandit. He is described as a "High Caste Brahmin Teacher and Lecturer from India." A picture of Pandit takes up most of the center of the image, showing him sitting in robes and a turban, looking pensive.
context_page_description: Sakharam Ganesh Pandit, also known as S. G. Pandit, was an Indian American lawyer and civil rights activist. Pandit immigrated to the United States in 1906 and became a citizen in 1914. In 1923, he represented Bhagat Singh Thind in the Supreme Court case United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind, which found that Indians were ineligible for United States citizenship. However, Pandit successfully fought against a subsequent attempt to remove his own citizenship, and the federal government thereafter gave up its efforts to denaturalize Indian Americans. Pandit died in Los Angeles in 1959.
context_section_description: Sakharam Ganesh Pandit (1875–1959), also known as S. G. Pandit, was an Indian American lawyer and civil rights activist. Pandit immigrated to the United States in 1906 and became a citizen in 1914. In 1923, he represented Bhagat Singh Thind in the Supreme Court case United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind, which found that Indians were ineligible for United States citizenship. However, Pandit successfully fought against a subsequent attempt to remove his own citizenship, and the federal government thereafter gave up its efforts to denaturalize Indian Americans. Pandit died in Los Angeles in 1959.
caption: S.G. Pandit c. 1910
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