by Jack Montgomery, The National Pulse:

Kamala Harris describes her Indian grandfather, P.V. Gopalan, as a progressive “independence fighter” against British rule, which ended shortly after the conclusion of the Second World War. Her claims are sparking angry recriminations in India, however, as he was actually a “diligent civil servant” who worked for the British Imperial Secretariat Service.

Harris has downplayed her Indian heritage in recent years, instead emphasizing the black identity she inherited from her father, a Jamaican Marxist of mixed African and European descent. Still, she shared a picture of herself in India for National Grandparents Day on Sunday, posing with her grandfather, whom she described as “a retired civil servant who had been part of the movement to win India’s independence.”