 The relationships between India in the days of the British Raj and the United States were thin.Swami Vivekananda promoted Yoga and Vedanta in the United States at the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago, during the World's Fair in 1893.Mark Twain visited India in 1896 and described it in his travelogue "Following the Equator" with both revulsion and attraction before concluding that India was the only foreign land he dreamed about or longed to see again.