🇮🇳 SUPREME LAW OF INDIA • ENFORCEABLE SINCE 26 JAN 1950
The Constitution of India: Sovereign Archive
Explore all 395+ articles across all 25 parts and 12 schedules of the world’s longest written constitution. Complete with plain-language explanations, Constituent Assembly debates, and landmark Supreme Court rulings.
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Amendments
📜 Preamble
“WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC...”
“WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens: JUSTICE, social, economic and political; LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship; EQUALITY of status and of opportunity; and to promote among them all FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity 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.”
Article 393 ('Short title') in Part XXII (Articles 393–395) forms the sovereign closing seal of the Constitution: Article 393 names the charter 'The Constitution of India'; Article 394 sets 26 January 1950 as the date of full commencement; Article 394A provides for the authoritative text in Hindi; and Article 395 repeals the British Government of India Act, 1935 and the Indian Independence Act, 1947, severing all legal dependence on the British Crown.
Article 394 ('Commencement') in Part XXII (Articles 393–395) forms the sovereign closing seal of the Constitution: Article 393 names the charter 'The Constitution of India'; Article 394 sets 26 January 1950 as the date of full commencement; Article 394A provides for the authoritative text in Hindi; and Article 395 repeals the British Government of India Act, 1935 and the Indian Independence Act, 1947, severing all legal dependence on the British Crown.
Article 394A ('Authoritative text in the Hindi language') in Part XXII (Articles 393–395) forms the sovereign closing seal of the Constitution: Article 393 names the charter 'The Constitution of India'; Article 394 sets 26 January 1950 as the date of full commencement; Article 394A provides for the authoritative text in Hindi; and Article 395 repeals the British Government of India Act, 1935 and the Indian Independence Act, 1947, severing all legal dependence on the British Crown.
Article 395 ('Repeals') in Part XXII (Articles 393–395) forms the sovereign closing seal of the Constitution: Article 393 names the charter 'The Constitution of India'; Article 394 sets 26 January 1950 as the date of full commencement; Article 394A provides for the authoritative text in Hindi; and Article 395 repeals the British Government of India Act, 1935 and the Indian Independence Act, 1947, severing all legal dependence on the British Crown.
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