Word: rajkumari
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, India's Minister of Health LL.D...
...same enthusiasm. "Graham Ki Jai" (Cheers for Graham), the Indians cried, and Billy acknowledged the enthusiasm Hindu fashion, joining his palms before his face and bowing his head. Presiding over a gathering of 15,000 on the grounds of New Delhi's Y.M.C.A. was an Indian Christian Princess, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, who in 1930 renounced her father's palace in Lucknow, became a Christian (Presbyterian), and is now India's Minister of Health. "Billy Graham," she said, "is one of those rare jewels who tread this earth periodically and draw, by their lives and teaching, millions...
Health Minister Rajkumari Amrit Kaur thought she had one answer. The Health Ministry provided women with simple sets of beads and showed them how to keep track of the rhythm-green beads for "safe" days, black beads for "baby" days (TIME...
...birth-control program became the province of Health Minister Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, a spinster, a Christian, and a devoted disciple of Gandhi, who taught that the only proper method of birth control is continence. "Harnessing science to ward off nature," said Miss Kaur, "is fraught with tremendous risk for the moral fiber of the nation." Therefore, by Minister Kaur's order Health Ministry workers taught only the rhythm method. Women were given beads to keep track of "safe" days (green) and "baby" days (black). But some women refused to use the beads on the ground that in India only...