Indian Constitution

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Podcast: What has India's Constitution meant for gender equality at ... (Scroll.in)

Historian Rohit De, journalist Barkha Dutt and academician Rohini Pande talk about the experience of women and girls through the lens of the Constititution.

As a result, says Pande, there has been a lot of catching up of economic rights, bodily rights coming after the Constitution in India and in other countries. According to Dutt, even if what the Constitution looked ahead to has not been executed, the Constitution is always a document of hope, of what India could be. As De asks, what happens in a society where women have heightened consciousness but the men still think like they did 20 years ago?

How the Constitutions of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh were drafted (The Indian Express)

The roots of the Indian Constitution lie in the nationalist movement against colonial rule as well as movements for responsible and constitutional governments ...

The 1973 Constitution was not supported by two of the then-four provinces of Pakistan, namely the North West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) and Balochistan. An important development leading up to the passage of the Constitution was the decision to amalgamate all the states of West Pakistan into one unified territory, an act known as the One Unit Scheme of 1955. However, the simplicity of adopting the constitution did not extend to preserving it. The LFO also dissolved the vastly unpopular One Unit scheme and stipulated that the National Assembly would have to create a new Constitution within 120 days of being convened. Years before the first Constitution was to be formalised, Pakistan’s Constituent Assembly passed the Objectives Resolution to define the basic directives of the state. One Unit was designed to overcome the difficulty of administering the two unequal states of West and East Pakistan which were separated from each other by more than one thousand miles. The first Constitution of Pakistan was enacted in 1956 amidst much opposition by Hindu majority parties and the largest Muslim political party in East Pakistan — Awami League — rejecting it. By January 1947, when it became clear that there was no hope for the Muslim League to join the Constituent Assembly, the Governor-General of the time, Lord Mountbatten, announced the setting up of a separate Assembly for Pakistan. From the beginning, Pakistan’s national identity was the subject of much focus. It was chaired by Motilal Nehru and the document was then known as the Nehru Report. This was followed by a series of reforms in 1891 and 1909 which sought to increase the representation of Indians within the various councils of the government. When was the Constitution of India written?

Making of the Indian Constitution (Greater Kashmir)

Pushing the demand forward, Jawaharlal Nehru announced that the Constitution must be framed, without outside interference, by an elected Constituent Assembly, ...

Rajendra Prasad, the President of the Constituent Assembly confirmed the Constitution, and fifteen Articles were immediately given effect to, on 26th November, 1949, which were, the provisions of Citizenship, Oath and Affirmation by the President, Elections, Definitions, Interpretation, Powers of the President to Remove Difficulties and the Short Title of the Constitution. The motion on Draft Constitution was declared as passed on 26th November, 1949, and received the signatures of the Members as well as the President of the Assembly. The Constituent Assembly considered a total of 2473 amendments proposed to the Draft Constitution from 9th December, 1946 to 26th November, 1949. The Constituent Assembly took a total of two years, eleven months, and seventeen days to complete the Constitution. Roy, an Indian revolutionary, in the year 1934, proposed the concept of a Constituent Assembly, following which, the Indian National Congress put forth their demand of a Constituent Assembly for framing of the Constitution for India. B R Ambedkar introduced the final draft of the Constitution in the Assembly on 4th November, 1948 over which the Assembly had a discussion until 9th November, 1948.

Why India must revisit its 'colonial' Constitution (Times of India)

It goes somewhat like this – the Constitution of India is the foundation of Indian democracy. It gives to all Indians certain freedoms to speak, pray and live ...

Republic Day 2023: How The Indian Constitution Is Preserved By ... (DNA India)

Egyptian mummies and the Indian constitution have a connection. There wasn't one, but three copies of the original constitution. One was printed, and the ...

RDAY2023: Do you know what's the connection between Indian ... (Zee News)

Egyptian mummies and the Indian constitution have a connection. There wasn't one, but three copies of the original constitution. One was printed, and the ...

74th Republic Day : Lets Build A 'Constitutional Democracy' And Not ... (Live Law)

Thucydides, a well-known Greek historian, criticised democracy by opining that democratic governments failed miserably “in the search for the truth.

The role of the judiciary, too, is extremely significant in a constitutional democracy. 75 years ago, India chose the path to a "constitutional democracy" as opposed to being a mere "democracy". During the Independence struggle and during the framing of the Indian Constitution, the founders never intended for India to merely become the ‘world’s largest democracy’. A constitutional democracy is characterised by limitations on state power both at the institutional as well as the procedural levels. ‘Constitutional Morality’ for Grote meant, “a paramount reverence for the forms of the constitution, enforcing obedience to authority and acting under and within these forms, of action subject only to definite legal control.” Ambedkar on various occasions warned the Constituent Assembly of the various challenges democracy could face in India.

Constituent Assembly of India: Know about the body that was ... (News9 Live)

The Constitution was framed by the Constituent Assembly of India, established by the members of the provincial assemblies elected by the people of India.

Members of the Constituent Assembly proposed amendments which had to be submitted in advance to the Chairman, and these were debated at length. The Constitution was framed by the Constituent Assembly of India, established by the members of the provincial assemblies elected by the people of India. The Constitution-making process was organised around the deliberations of the Constituent Assembly.

Spirit of the Indian Republic - Jammu Kashmir Latest News | Tourism ... (Daily Excelsior)

Dr. Banarsi Lal. Every year 26th of January is celebrated as the Republic Day in India. On this day we celebrate the anniversary of the Constitution of ...

Constitution of India is Indian in spirit and Indian in content. One of the Directive Principles of the State Policy enunciated in the Constitution of India is the separation of the judicial powers from the stateside Executive Powers. The 73rd and 74th Amendments in the Constitution have heralded a new chapter in the process of democratic decentralisation. The Lichhvis and the Mallas of the pre-Mauryan India of the Buddhist times were the earliest republics of the time. The verification of knowledge and transparency of facts is Vedanta. The Indian constitution is constituted of 395 articles and twelve schedules. With that the Government of India Act 1935 and the Indian Independence Act 1947 were repealed. In the ancient republics of India there was constant communication between the Government, the legislature and the citizen. In the similar way, there is always the freedom of speech. The corner-stone of a republic is equality and its prime essentiality is equality. On this day we celebrate the anniversary of the Constitution of India and the transition of India from a British Dominion to a republic on 26th January, 1950 across the nation. In such a republic, the citizen is a sovereign and subject.

R-Day is true national festival (The Hans India)

Republic Day celebrations take place each year on January 26 to commemorate the date the Indian Constitution came into force. For more than 200 years, ...

Does he not agree with the Constitution and that Telangana is a part of the nation? He added "it is perfectly possible to pervert the constitution, without changing its form by merely changing the form of the administration and to make it inconsistent and opposed to the spirit of the constitution". Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar while presenting the final draft of the Constitution to the Constituent Assembly stated "the form of administration must be appropriate to and in the same sense as the form of the constitution". Republic Day celebrations take place each year on January 26 to commemorate the date the Indian Constitution came into force. Although India gained independence on August 14th, 1947, the constitution came into effect on January 26th, 1950. For more than 200 years, the British ruled India.

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