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The Making of the Indian Constitution:
Legacy and Impact
and integrity of the Nation;
IN OUR CONSTITUENT
ASSEMBLY this twenty-sixth day
of November, 1949, do HEREBY
ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO
OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION.
A Surya Prakash
Former Chairman, Prasar
Bharati
The Constitution of India’s
Preamble reads:
WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA,
having solemnly resolved to Such is the legacy of the
constitute India into a SOVEREIGN Indian Constitution that it stands
SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC as a monumental document
REPUBLIC and to secure to all which not only defines the
its citizens: JUSTICE, social, governance structure of
economic and political; LIBERTY India but also embodies
of thought, expression, belief, the aspirations of a diverse,
faith and worship; EQUALITY of democratic, and pluralistic
status and of opportunity; and society. Its creation, shaped
to promote among them all by the confluence of various
FRATERNITY assuring the dignity historical, social, and political
of the individual and the unity forces, marks one of the most
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