Sakharam Ganesh Pandit | |
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 S. G. Pandit c. 1910 | |
| Born | 1875 |
| Died | 1959 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Citizenship | British Indian, American (1914) |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
| Known for | United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind |
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; the Court ruled against Thind and 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.