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Hannah Ellis-Petersen and KA Shaji in Thulasendrapuram

Village in India where Harris is ‘daughter of the land’ on edge as US election looms

Residents carry photo of Vice-President Kamala Harris at her ancestral village of Thulasendrapuram in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu in January 2021.
Residents carry photo of Vice-President Kamala Harris at her ancestral village of Thulasendrapuram in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu in January 2021. Photograph: Arun Sankar/AFP/Getty Images

Kamala Harris may never have visited Thulasendrapuram, a sleepy village in south India, but its residents claim to be some of her most devoted fans.

It was here, in among the verdant rice paddies and groundnut farms of rural Tamil Nadu, that Harris’s grandfather PV Gopalan was born. Though more than a century has passed since then, residents have proudly claimed Harris as a “daughter of the land”.

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