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1. The Constitution of India 3. Prem Behari Raizada took
is the longest written around five months to
constitution of any sovereign complete the calligraphy of
country, with 448 articles in the Constitution of India.
22 parts, and 12 schedules.
4. The Constitution of India
has been translated in all
22 scheduled languages
including Santhali, Oriya,
Marathi, Tamil, etc.
5. The original Indian
Constitution is handwritten
in two languages - Hindi and
English. They are specially
preserved in helium-filled
cases at the Central Library
of the Parliament.
6. A member of the Constituent
Assembly, Hansa Jivraj
Mehta, advocated women’s
rights and contributed to
the Indian Constitution with
regard to gender equality.
7. It took two years, 11 months
and 17 days to draft the
Constitution of India. The first
meeting of the Constituent
2. The Constitution of India
Assembly was headed by Dr
was not typeset/printed
Sachchidananda Sinha on
but handwritten using
December 9, 1946, with 205
calligraphy.
members.

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