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India in AmericaVivek Ranjan SrivastavaIndia’s presence in America is not confined to a single event, monument, or immigrant community. It is an expansive cultural, intellectual, and social landscape shaped gradually over time. This presence sometimes appears in the form of a statue installed in a garden, sometimes in lectures delivered in university halls, sometimes in collaborative research inside laboratories, and sometimes in the rhythm of a tabla or the echo of devotional songs in a small town cultural center.The bust of Mahatma Gandhi installed in the North Lawn Garden of the United Nations Headquarters in New York stands as a