Word: datar
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...India's Deputy Home Affairs Minister Balwant Nagesh Datar announced that during the past two years 789 U.S. missionaries had been approved for entry to India and 109 had been turned down on the ground that their services "were not required...
...India's House of the People (Lower House of Parliament), a bitter debate brought the issues into the open. Deputy Home Minister Balwant Nagesh Datar declared that the right to propagate religion, as well as other rights guaranteed by the Indian constitution, applies only to Indian nationals; foreigners are subject to any obligations the government might see fit to impose on them. This was strongly contested by the Christian members of the House, who maintained that constitutional rights apply equally to all, and that the right to propagate religion has no meaning without the right to convert. Maniben Patel...