Mystery solved: Joe Biden will get proof of household ties to India
Mystery solved.
President Joe Biden sat down with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday for essential talks in regards to the Indo-Pacific area. But first, the leaders caught up on the president’s circle of relatives ties to the subcontinent.
Biden recalled that quickly after he was first elected to the U.S. Senate, he acquired a letter from a person in Mumbai who stated his final title was additionally Biden. The president stated he by no means had the possibility to comply with up.
Later, as vp, Biden was in India and recalled being requested by native press if he had any Indian kin. He retold the story of the letter. The subsequent day, Biden stated, he was knowledgeable by Indian press that there have been no less than just a few Bidens in India.
“And although we never admitted it … I’ve found out that there was a Capt. George Biden who was a captain in the East India Tea Company in India,” Biden stated. He gave the impression to be referring to the British East India Company, a business energy for hundreds of years that managed commerce in colonized India and elements of southeast Asia.
Biden, who continuously talks of his Irish ancestry, quipped that the British connection was “hard for an Irishman to admit.”
Biden, who has informed variations of the anecdote to Indian audiences earlier than, stated Capt. Biden “apparently stayed and married an Indian woman” however he’d by no means been capable of nail down additional particulars.
He joked that Modi was in Washington “to help me figure it out.”
In reality, Modi informed the president that he had “hunted” for paperwork that will make clear the president’s Mumbai connection, and introduced his findings with him.
“Are we related?” Biden requested.
The prime minister confirmed that the forty sixth U.S. president did certainly have household connections to the subcontinent.
“Maybe we’ll be able to take this matter forward, and maybe those documents could be of use to you,” Modi informed Biden.
