SMOKERS’ CORNER: INSIDER OR OUTSIDER?

SMOKERS’ CORNER: INSIDER OR OUTSIDER?

In 1923, an Indian migrant to the United States, Bhagat Singh Thind, went to the US Supreme Court to argue that he should be treated as a ‘Caucasian’ (white person).  Thind had arrived in the US in 1913 for higher studies. He was granted US citizenship in 1918, but it was revoked under a 1906 law that only allowed “free white persons” to be eligible for US citizenship. Five years later, Thind and his lawyer, S. G. Pandit, went to the court, wher…