Sakharam Ganesh Pandit

Sakharam Ganesh Pandit
S. G. Pandit c. 1910
Born	1875 Ahmedabad
Died	1959 Los Angeles
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.