Diocese of Medak of the Church of South India on the western coast. The first Protestant missionaries arrived in 1706 with Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg and Heinrich Plütschau of the Lutheran Missions who landed at Tranquebar on the eastern coast of Tamil Nadu. However, the modern missions began to take shape only with the arrival of the Baptist Missions in 1793 led by William Carey, the Father of the Modern Missionary Movement. It was with this background that Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India remarked in a parliamentary debate in 1955 in the Lok Sabha that, The Roman Catholic missionaries first set foot in the erstwhile Hyderabad State in
Prime Minister of Orissa Prime Minister of Orissa The Prime Minister of Orissa was the head of government and the Leader of the House in the Legislative Assembly of Orissa Province in British India. The position was dissolved upon the independence of India in 1947. The office was created under the Government of India Act 1935. During the Indian provincial elections, 1937, the Indian National Congress won 36 seats in Orissa, while other parties and independents won 24 seats. The first premiership was held by the influential aristocrat and independent legislator Sir Krushna Chandra Gajapati for 80 days. Biswanath Das, a provincial legislator of