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Under the constitutional provisions relating to citizenship at the commencement of the Constitution, which one of the following would have been entitled to citizenship of India on 26 January 1950?
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- 1A person born outside India to Indian parents but ordinarily resident abroad, without registration or other constitutional qualification
- 2A person who or whose parents or grandparents were born in undivided India and who migrated from Pakistan to India before the prescribed cut-off, subject to the constitutional conditions✓
- 3A person who migrated to Pakistan after 1 March 1947 and later returned to India without the prescribed legal process
- 4A person resident in India for five years immediately before independence, irrespective of domicile
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A person who or whose parents or grandparents were born in undivided India and who migrated from Pakistan to India before the prescribed cut-off, subject to the constitutional conditions
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