diff --git a/rust/lancedb/src/index/scalar.rs b/rust/lancedb/src/index/scalar.rs
index e7066548..8003688a 100644
--- a/rust/lancedb/src/index/scalar.rs
+++ b/rust/lancedb/src/index/scalar.rs
@@ -53,7 +53,10 @@ pub struct LabelListIndexBuilder {}
 /// A full text search index is an index on a string column that allows for full text search
 #[derive(Debug, Clone)]
 pub struct FtsIndexBuilder {
-    pub(crate) with_position: bool,
+    /// Whether to store the position of the tokens
+    /// This is used for phrase queries
+    pub with_position: bool,
+
     pub tokenizer_configs: TokenizerConfig,
 }
 
diff --git a/rust/lancedb/src/remote/table.rs b/rust/lancedb/src/remote/table.rs
index 486912d8..90fd0510 100644
--- a/rust/lancedb/src/remote/table.rs
+++ b/rust/lancedb/src/remote/table.rs
@@ -570,7 +570,19 @@ impl<S: HttpSend> TableInternal for RemoteTable<S> {
             Index::BTree(_) => ("BTREE", None),
             Index::Bitmap(_) => ("BITMAP", None),
             Index::LabelList(_) => ("LABEL_LIST", None),
-            Index::FTS(_) => ("FTS", None),
+            Index::FTS(fts) => {
+                let with_position = fts.with_position;
+                let configs = serde_json::to_value(fts.tokenizer_configs).map_err(|e| {
+                    Error::InvalidInput {
+                        message: format!("failed to serialize FTS index params {:?}", e),
+                    }
+                })?;
+                for (key, value) in configs.as_object().unwrap() {
+                    body[key] = value.clone();
+                }
+                body["with_position"] = serde_json::Value::Bool(with_position);
+                ("FTS", None)
+            }
             Index::Auto => {
                 let schema = self.schema().await?;
                 let field = schema
@@ -1496,6 +1508,7 @@ mod tests {
         ];
 
         for (index_type, distance_type, index) in cases {
+            let params = index.clone();
             let table = Table::new_with_handler("my_table", move |request| {
                 assert_eq!(request.method(), "POST");
                 assert_eq!(request.url().path(), "/v1/table/my_table/create_index/");
@@ -1512,6 +1525,17 @@ mod tests {
                 if let Some(distance_type) = distance_type {
                     expected_body["metric_type"] = distance_type.to_lowercase().into();
                 }
+                if let Index::FTS(fts) = &params {
+                    expected_body["with_position"] = fts.with_position.into();
+                    expected_body["base_tokenizer"] = "simple".into();
+                    expected_body["language"] = "English".into();
+                    expected_body["max_token_length"] = 40.into();
+                    expected_body["lower_case"] = true.into();
+                    expected_body["stem"] = false.into();
+                    expected_body["remove_stop_words"] = false.into();
+                    expected_body["ascii_folding"] = false.into();
+                }
+
                 assert_eq!(body, expected_body);
 
                 http::Response::builder().status(200).body("{}").unwrap()