Important Facts about Indian Constitution and Study Material:
- It took 2 years, 11 months and 18 days to complete draft of Constitution of India.
- Constitution of India is inspired / sourced from many other country’s constitutions.
- Parliamentary System, Rule of law, Lagislative Procedure, Single Citizenship, Cabinet System, Prerogative Writs and Parliamentary Privileges are inspired from Britain’s constitution.
- Directive Principles of State Policy, nomination of members of Rajya Sabha & method of election of president are sourced from Ireland’s constitution.
- Idea of Five-year plan, fundamental duties, ideals of justice is inspired from USSR’s constitution.
- Fundamental rights, independence of judiciary, judicial review, impeachment of president, removal of Supreme court & high court judges & post of vice president are sourced from United States of America’s constitution.
- Centre, appointment of state Governor by the centre & advisory jurisdiction of Supreme Court are taken from Canadian constitution.
- The idea of suspension of fundamental rights during emergency is taken from Germany’s constitution
- Concurrent list, joint sitting of two houses of Parliament are inspired from Australian constitution.
- Idea of Liberty and equality is taken from constitution of France.
- Procedure of amendment of the constitution & election of members of Rajya Sabha is inspired from South African constitution.
History of Indian Constitution
Indian constitution is divided into 22 parts and 295 articles.
- Part 1: The Union and its territory (Article 1 – 4)
- Part II: Citizenship (Article 5 – 11)
- Part III: Fundamental Rights (Article 12 – 35)
- Part IV: Directive Principles (Article 36 – 51)
- Part IV: Fundamental Duties (Article 51A)
- Part V: The Union (Article 52 – 151
- Part VI: The States (Article 152 – 237)
- Part VII: Repealed by Constitution (7th Amendment) Act, 1956
- Part VIII: The Union Territories (Article 239 – 242
- Part IX: The Panchayats (Article 243 – 2430)
- Part IX (A): The Municipalities (Article 243P – 243ZG)
- Part IX (B): The Co-operative Societies (Article 243 ZH – 243 ZT)
- Part X: The Scheduled and Tribal Areas Art 244 – 244 A)
- Part XI: Relations between the Union and the States (Article 245 – 263)
- Part XII: Finance, Property, Contracts and Suits (Article 264 to 300A)
- Part XIII: Trade, Commerce and Intercourse within the Territory of India (Article 301 – 307)
- Part XIV: Services under the Union and the States (Article 308 – 323)
- Part XIV (A): Tribunals (Article 323A – 323B)
- Part XV: Elections (Article 324 – 329A)
- Part XVI: Special provisions relating to certain classes (Article 330 – 342)
- Part XVII: Official Language (Article 343 – 351)
- Part XVIII: Emergency Provisions (Article 352 – 360)
- Part XIX: Miscellaneous (Article 361 – 367)
- Part XX: Amendment of the Constitution (Article 368)
- Part XXI: Temporary, Transitional and Special Provisions (Article 369 – 392)
- Part XXII: Short title, commencement, authoritative text in Hindi and repeals (Article 393 – 395)
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