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Joe Biden and Kamala the United Kingdom Harris Become Democratic Withdraws from the Presidential & European Union Vice Presidential Elect 1 Cover: 2020 - OTHER THAN COVID-19 Iranian Major “Parasite”, General Qasem Australian bushfires the first Soleimani killed - Climate disruptions non-English in US drone continue speaking film strike sweeps the Oscars Joe Biden and Kamala The United Kingdom Harris become Democratic withdraws from the presidential & European Union vice presidential elect Typhoon Goni - Prince Harry and strongest Meghan Markle landfalling quit royal family tropical cyclone on record Impeachment of President Donald Trump Legendary footballer Diego Maradona no more The Sanmar Group 9, Cathedral Road, Chennai 600 086. 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Ph: + 91 44 2812 8051 For Private Circulation Only. 3 Joe Biden - Kamala Harris and their Indian connect Not only the Vice President elect of the US, Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden too claims an India connect. While Joe Biden speaks of a great great great great great grandfather who after service with the East India Company settled down in India, Kamala Harris, as a typical daughter of Tamil Nadu, likes to eat ‘idli with really good sambar.’ “When a Biden exposed child trafficking in Madras” [Excerpts from historian Sriram V’s article] Ever since Joe Biden, for his charitable disposition. now the US President The Biden Home for Destitute elect, announced his Seamen at Royapuram was set up intentions to run for that by him and this, in 1868, became high office, interest in the Biden Home for Sailors. By his ancestor with Indian then, Christopher Biden was long connections has peaked. dead, he having passed on in 1858 He had himself spoken and being buried at St George’s of his great great great Cathedral, with a memorial plaque great great-grandfather to him in it. Willasey-Wilsey has George Biden, who after speculated that this may have been service with the East Joseph Biden’s ancestor, though he India Company, settled points out that there are no records down in India, marrying of Christopher having married an a native woman. It is significant that Indian woman. He, in 1819 had no records of a George Biden have married Harriott, a Derbyshire girl as yet surfaced. In August this year, and she accompanied him on his an excellently researched article second and final voyage to Madras. by Tim Willasey-Wilsey, Visiting The couple lost a daughter en-route. Professor of War Studies, King’s Mrs Biden lived long, dying in College, London, was published in 1880, in London. the website gatewayhouse.in. There however, appears to have It has since made the rounds on social been another daughter. And this media. This concerned Christopher is evident from the proceedings Biden, who was Captain of several of the Committee of the Biden ships of the East India Company Testimonial Fund, which was and then returned to England in formed immediately after his the 1830s only to return to Madras death, in 1858. This was headed by Christopher Biden, pic courtesy a few years later. Here he rose in (afterwards Sir) Walter Elliot who is http://www.artnet.com position and society, and was known remembered today principally for 4 having excavated the stupa at Amaravati and shipped much of it to the British Museum, leaving some of the remnants at the Government Museum, Madras. The artefacts are even now known as the Elliot Marbles, after the more famous Greek equivalents named after Elgin, even though the Amaravati Stupa was of limestone. Be that as it may, Elliot and his Committee worked hard on the Biden fund and collected donations from Bombay, Calcutta and of course Madras, all testimony to the popularity that Capt. Biden enjoyed. In this 2018 photo, Bidens of India and abroad gathered together for a family The money, it was resolved, would be wedding in Nagpur. (courtesy: PTI) used “for the construction of a building or the endowment of an institution called the Biden Home for Sailors, the erection of a monument over his grave and of a tablet in the cathedral, and the payment of his funeral expenses.” The last appears to indicate that Biden, for all his sterling qualities, had not made sufficient money. This is further buttressed by the fact that the Advocate General, the Hon. Sydney Smythe petitioned the Honourable Court of Directors (the East India Company was still functioning) for an annuity for Mrs Biden and her daughter, in view A plaque commemorating 19th-century British ship captain Christopher Biden of “his long, zealous and loyal service”. has been a popular selfie spot in the eastern city of Chennai since the US election. This the Company agreed to and the changed its name to honour Biden. wife became entitled to a pension of 50 This the latter body was most happy to pounds per annum thereafter. do and so it became the Biden Home In the meanwhile, a sum of Rs 9696/1 for Sailors. It appears to have also was collected and out of this, after been known as the Biden Home for paying for the tablet and the funeral Destitute Seamen. In 1939, the Madras expenses, Rs 8,017-0-3 remained. It Tercentenary Volume noted that the was deemed that this amount was too building was no longer being used for small for the construction of a Biden its original purpose. It is not certain if Home for Sailors and so the money was the structure still exists but there is an made over to the existing Sailors’ Home Indian Seafarers Welfare Organisation with the proviso that the institution in Royapuram. 5 Christopher Biden had many great really an ancestor of Joe Biden. But qualities but one of the most heart- what is of interest is the humanity warming stories about him is the way he that was ingrained in the former. At exposed trafficking in children, all along his suggestion it became law all along the Madras coast. This was in 1839, while Madras Presidency to have ships searched for unaccompanied children he was serving as the Beach Magistrate, being kept captive and perhaps that Madras... did see some reduction in the trade. He At the end of the story, I am not is worthy of emulation for his humane certain if this Christopher Biden was qualities. Much has been said about the 1947, he continued as a civil servant US democratic Vice-President for the new Indian government. He was elect Kamala Harris, who very progressive and so educated all his has an Indian-born mother children well, the eldest being Kamala’s and Jamaican-born father, and mother, Shyamala. So when she won her mother’s keenness to instill admission to a Ph.D. programme at a ‘love for good idli’ during the University of California, Berkeley, Kamala’s holidays in Chennai, to study nutrition and endocrinology, India. Kamala’s grandfather did not hesitate to Born in Oakland, California pay, even though it was a lot of money to the Indian immigrant for a civil servant. Shyamala Gopalan and Post retirement Kamala tagged along Jamaican American Donald with her grandfather Gopalan in his J Harris, Kamala mentions her Indian roots in her memoir where she recalls her childhood filled with books, Indian spices and her mother singing in the Hindu temples in the US. However, her parents got divorced when Kamala was only 7 years old. Her mother later became a breast cancer scientist and they moved to Montreal in Quebec, Canada. Shyamala Gopalan had a research position and taught at a hospital till she died from colon cancer in 2009. Kamala’s grandfather Gopalan was born in a small village south of Chennai called Painganadu, in 1911. He left the village as a young man to take a job as Kamala Harris, left, with her sister, Maya, a stenographer for the British colonial and mother, Shyamala, outside their (Photos from Internet) government. After independence in apartment in Berkeley in January 1970. 6 routine morning walks at the Besant Nagar beach, discussing equal rights, corruption and the direction India was headed. In her speech to Indian-American group in 2018, Kamala cited that it was those walks on the beach with her grandfather in Besant Nagar that had a profound impact on who she was today. Kamala often invokes her late mother, Shyamala, to strive for excellence and lift others up. These were principles Shyamala inherited from Gopalan and her mother, Rajam.
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