Originally Posted by
spc354
The OP here! While she was born in the US, she was on my wife's passport and had traveled to India as such, and was going to travel back to the US in the same manner. The insistence defacto stripped her of her Indian citizenship.
That is unfortunate. Some countries sometimes find a way round this issue for Indian (and other) citizens — the UK Certificate of Entitlement to the Right of Abode, for example, or the Australian Declaratory Visa (not really a visa at all, really, but an "administrative document"). However, India makes its own rules about who is an Indian citizen, of course.