Americans in India Americans in India Americans in India comprise expatriates and immigrants from the United States living in India, along with Indian citizens of American descent. They have a history stretching back to the late 18th century. During World War II, more than 400,000 American soldiers were sent to India. After the end of British colonial rule in India in 1947, the "colonial third culture" surrounding employment, which featured expatriates in superior roles, natives in subordinate roles, and little informal socialisation between the two, began to be replaced with a "co-ordinate third culture", based around the common social life of Americans working
Colonial India and valuable parts of the British Empire and thus became known as "the jewel in the British crown". According to modern data, the Mughal Empire was a very wealthy country with many independent princely states therefore it is possible that the country's governance system was outsourced to the Europeans. Long after the decline of the Roman Empire's sea-borne trade with India, the Portuguese were the next Europeans to sail there for the purpose of trade, first arriving by ship in May 1498. The closing of the traditional trade routes in western Asia by the Ottoman Empire, and rivalry with the