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Urgent!! Help regarding Citizenship of India for my grandfather

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My grandfather M (73) has been trying to acquire Indian citizenship to get a valid passport to India.

He was born in 1948 in Tanzania, under British rule, thus he had a British passport.

He came to India in 1959 (at age 12) and was stamped (Allowed to land) on the passport because there was no visa concept between commonwealth countries.

4 years ago he applied for an Indian passport and it was rejected stating "not a citizen of India". He then tried to apply for Indian citizenship through naturalization but still was rejected since the passport he had as identification has been long expired.

We have tried talking to various lawyers and government officials but to no avail (They always guide us to the passport website but don't address the unique issue here)

How can he get Indian citizenship or an Indian passport? He has property in India, has lived in India for about 61 years. Married to an Indian-born citizen for 49 years and has two kids both Indian-born citizens.

If anyone has a solution for this please help me. We are hoping Reddit would have someone that can show us the way.

TLDR; My grandfather M(73) - Born in Tanzania under British rule - came to India in 1959 and was stamped (Allowed to land) - After 62 years he applied for an Indian passport which was rejected on the basis of him not being a citizen - Tried applying for citizenship but his original passport is now expired - How do we go about this process of getting him citizenship?

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