Not since Baroda’s Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III flung a sartorial bomb into the Delhi Durbar of 1911 have attire and attitude caused so much consternation in high places as the recent fiasco in the Oval Office of the White House. Not that it’s at all surprising that the American vice-president should emerge as Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s strident critic. James David Vance may be a white American politician but his gifted Hindu Brahmin vegetarian wife’s roots are in the Telugu heartland of Andhra Pradesh. It being no secret that catch-as-catch-can upwardly mobile Indian immigrants are not noted for cultural sensitivity, some crassness...