Does Biden have relatives in India?

Attempts to hunt down the president-elect’s India connection began with a 2013 comment he made in Mumbai, and have since seen a family in Maharashtra caught in a media feeding frenzy, as Stuti Mishra reports from Delhi

Bidens of India and abroad gathered together for a family wedding in Nagpur in 2018 (Biden Family)

With Kamala Harris poised to become the first Indian-American in history to enter the White House, the results of the US presidential election were already being closely followed among South Asian communities.

Now those celebrating the link between India and the US may be able to do one better – if it turns out that the president-elect Joe Biden himself has ancestral ties to the subcontinent.

The outgoing president Donald Trump may have cultivated warm relations with his “good friend” India’s Narendra Modi, but in a nation that is obsessed with extended families and the exploits of Indians abroad, nothing eases the way to better ties more smoothly than blood.