# The Constitution comes into force
**संविधान लागू**

- Canonical page: https://indianepics.online/event/constitution-1950/
- Chapter: [The Republic and its states](https://indianepics.online/chapter/republic.md)
- Track: evidence (archaeology and documents)
- When: 1950 CE
- Where: Parliament House, New Delhi (28.617, 77.208)
- Tags: political

## Summary

On 26 January India becomes a sovereign democratic republic; its constitution, drafted under B. R. Ambedkar, is the world's longest.

26 जनवरी को भारत संप्रभु लोकतांत्रिक गणराज्य बना; बी. आर. आंबेडकर की अध्यक्षता में तैयार उसका संविधान विश्व का सबसे लंबा है।

## Account

The Constituent Assembly adopted the text on 26 November 1949, and it came into force two months later, on the anniversary of the Purna Swaraj day of 1930. Article 1: India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States.

The First Schedule sorted those states into four parts, A to D: former British provinces, former princely states and their unions, smaller centrally run states, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. That list is what the next pins rewrite.

## Sources

- Constitution of India — https://legislative.gov.in/constitution-of-india/
- Austin, The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation (1966)

## Image

SansadBhavan. Bill Strong from Melbourne, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0), via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASansadBhavan.jpg

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