Bhagat Singh Thind as a young man in U.S. Army uniform with rifle, Camp Lewis 1918 (WWI). Thind, a Sikh American, was the first U.S. serviceman to be allowed for religious reasons to wear a turban ...

Last week I attended a White House event honoring the life of Bhagat Singh Thind, a turbaned Sikh who migrated to the United States from India on July 4, 1913. Although the White House was right ...

The story of Bhagat Singh Thind is an important one for the Sikh American community, but, arguably, one that has not got its due. Despite being in the US Army during WW1, Thind was denied US ...

It also highlights the ways history sometimes repeats itself: Bhagat Singh Thind fought for the right to wear his turban during his military service in 1918. A Sikh U.S. Army captain was engaged ...

After his unsuccessful legal battle in 1923, Bhagat Singh Thind was granted US citizenship in 1936. | Wikimedia Commons [Licensed under PD US] Perhaps because of this political context, Thind ...

LOS ANGELES – Christ Center of Divine Philosophy, Inc. claims the Dr. Bhagat Singh Thind Spiritual Science Foundation violated copyright on the book, “Meditation: Ancient Teachings of the Masters,” in ...

Bhagat Singh Thind: The soldier whose fight for US citizenship reverberated for decades Anu Kumar · Nov 23, 2021 · 12:30 pm. An Indian immigrant’s fight for US citizenship in 1923 holds ...

February 9, 2023 • In 1923, an Indian American man named Bhagat Singh Thind argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that he was a white man and was therefore eligible to become a naturalized citizen.