The itinerant nationalist and anti-colonial activist Taraknath Das (1884–1958) remains a relatively understudied figure in the history of India as well as the history of the United States of America. Given his centrality to the Ghadar movement, his education in the USA, and his role in inter-war anti-colonial movements, his life serves as a window into entangled histories of race and citizenship between the United States of America and colonial India in the late colonial era. Seen alongside other “expatriate patriots” such as Mohandas Gandhi (1869–1948) and Shyamji Krishnavarma (1857–1930), Das appears as a central figure in North American history of overseas Indian nationalism in the early to mid-twentieth century. Building upon legal and cultural histories of South Asian histories in the United States of America, this chapter advances conversations in legal history on citizenship and race by focusing on the specific history of Das’ applications for citizenship in the early twentieth century. After a brief expose of life in the USA from his entry in 1906 to 1925, I discuss his three applications for citizenship, resulting in his final receipt of it in 1914. Additionally, I briefly examine the rise of the Taraknath Das Foundation, showcasing his life at the crossroads of US and Indian histories. Das’ life story shows the lived experience of citizenship at the crossroads between Indian anti-colonial nationalism and Asian exclusion in the early twentieth century.