Is it possible to connect the history of Kansas with the history of the Green Revolution in India? The Kansas Congressman Robert J. Dole visited India at the end of 1966 as part of a congressional delegation to assess the severity of famine and the steps undertaken by the Indian government to introduce high yielding variety seeds. President Lyndon Johnson’s policies to induce India toward “self-help” by improving its agriculture and his use of food aid as a bargaining counter to pressurize famine-stricken India to adopt “Green Revolution” tools of hybrid seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides are known. This paper uses documents surrounding Congressman Bob Dole’s visit to find deeper connections between Kansas and India at the level of social history. The papers of Congressman Bob Dole seem to provide the means to link up the sensibilities of native Kansans with policy outcomes in India. These records carry multiple historical currents seeking realization, and an aspiration to connect with the far off history of India. As they rose from the bottom of the society, from the level of day-to-day experiences of average Kansans, some of these concerns earned policy outcomes. Other sensitivities receded in the face of modernist frames and were screened out before reaching the thresholds of historical expression. But nonetheless, in their own “present,” these local Kansans and their viewpoints were important in their own right. This paper analyzes those deeper, countervailing trends to provide a rich history of the influence of a prominent agricultural mid-western state in the United States on the unfolding of agricultural policy and technology in the unobvious terrain of a seemingly remote India.