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  Constitution of India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Constitution of India was passed by the Constituent Assembly of India on November 26, 1949, and came into effect on January 26, 1950.
The Constitution of India draws extensively from Western legal traditions in its enunciation of the principles of liberal democracy.
The preamble is not a part of the Constitution of India as it is not enforceable in a court of law.
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 India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
India is referred to as the largest democracy in the world, by virtue of the fact that it has the largest electing population among democratic countries.
The territory of India constitutes a major portion of the Indian subcontinent, situated on the Indian Plate, the northerly portion of the Indo-Australian Plate, in southern Asia.
India is the second fastest growing major economy in the world, with a GDP growth rate of 8.4%, as of the first quarter of 2006.
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 Grand Lodge of India
It therefore follows that the teachings of Freemasonry substantially fulfills the underlying motives and objects sought to be achieved by the Constitution of India and the mischief the Constitution is intended to redress.
The Constitution of India guarantees that no person of a particular religion shall be treated unfavourably by the state when compared with persons of other religions.
Under the Grand Lodge of India it is significant to note that the scriptures of all religions practised in India is placed on the alter to show that Masonry is a secular institution.
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 Constitution Of India, Indian Constitution, India Constitution, History Of Indian Constitution, Information On Indian ...
The Constitution of India was drafted by the Constituent Assembly.
The rest of the Constitution came into force on the 26th January, 1950, and this date is referred to in the Constitution as the Date of its Commencement.
Official And Regional Languages Of India: Subject to the provisions of articles 346 and 347, the Legislature of a State may by law adopt any one or more of the languages in use in the State or Hindi as the language or languages to be used for all or any of the official purposes...
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 India - The Constitution
The constitution provides for three categories of emergencies: a threat by "war or external aggression" or by "internal disturbances"; a "failure of constitutional machinery" in the country or in a state; and a threat to the financial security or credit of the nation or a part of it.
The Defence of India Rules were reimposed during the 1971 war with Pakistan; they remained in effect after the end of the war and were invoked for a variety of uses not intended by their framers, such as the arrests made during a nationwide railroad strike in 1974.
Among its constitutional powers are approval and removal of members of the Council of Ministers, amendment of the constitution, approval of central government finances, and delimitation of state and union territory boundaries (see State Governments and Union Territories, this ch.).
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 Manas: History and Politics, Constitution of India
The newly-appointed Constituent Assembly was given the task of drafting a constitution for India, and the greater part of this onerous responsibility fell upon the shoulders of B. Ambedkar, who was elected chairman of the drafting committee.
Ambedkar, who was Law Minister in the Government of India, and his colleagues made a careful study of the constitutions of various countries, besides considering the common law traditions of Britain and the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States.
The Constitution of India guarantees equal rights to all citizens, and prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, caste, and religion; it also allows universal franchise, thereby making the Indian electorate the largest in the world.
www.sscnet.ucla.edu /southasia/History/Independent/indep.html   (360 words)

  
 National Portal of India : Government : Constitution of India
The Republic is governed in terms of the Constitution of India which was adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 26 th November 1949 and came into force on 26 th January 1950.
As per Article 79 of the Constitution of India, the council of the Parliament of the Union consists of the President and two Houses to be known as the Council of States (Rajya Sabha) and the House of the People (Lok Sabha).
Article 74(1) of the Constitution provides that there shall be a Council of Ministers with a Prime Minister as its head to aid and advise the President, who shall exercise his functions in accordance to the advice.
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 The Sikhs & review of the Constitution of India@
The constitution of India is the key organic document charting out the path of good governance of the country.
While Constitution of India was being framed, the forefathers, due to some wrong impressions and keeping in view of the gory happenings of Partition, considered Sikhs as a part of Hindus.
The Constitution of the country is the supreme law of the land and whatever is written there is taken very seriously all over the world.
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 Indian Constitution, India File - Constitution of India - Preamble-India Finance & Investment Guide
A draft of the Constitution was published in February 1948.
The Indian Constitution closely follows the the British Parliamentary model, but differs from it in one important respect that is, the Constitution is supreme, not the Parliament.
The methods for amendment of the Constitution are three according to the subject matter of the Article concerned.
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 ICL - India Index
The constitution was passed by the Constituent Assembly on 26 Nov 1949 and is fully applicable since 26 Jan 1950.
K.B. Agrawal, the ICL-Edition of the Constitution now incorporates all amendments until and including the 78th amendment (1995) [30 Aug 1995]; there are no newer amendments until Dec 1996.
India is a federal democratic republic of 25 states and seven Union Territories.
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 Manas: History and Politics, Constitution of India
India handed Pakistan the defeat that least of all it can tolerate, and to some it no longer mattered if India reached the final: the World Cup had been played out, and the celebrations on the streets in Indian cities were on a grandiose scale.
There is no such thing as a Pakistani civilization, and though Pakistanis might like to believe that their civilizational moorings are derived preeminently from Islam, they should apprise themselves of what middle eastern Islam, which has set itself up as the true and authentic version of the faith, thinks of the Islam of South Asia.
Likewise, the Hindus in India, if they were not so accustomed to thinking of India as a nation-state, might begin to think of Pakistan as an inextricable part of Indian civilization; they might even, however unthinkable it sounds, recognize in Islam a part of themselves.
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 CONSTITUTION OF INDIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
NEW DELHI : Recently, the Government of India notified the ABC rules with a view to control the stray dog population as a means to control incidence of rabies and to reduce cruelty to dogs.
of India to ensure that the oxytocin is not used and also to prosecute the offenders under the PCA Act.
A film on 'Wildlife of India' was exhibited to school children on 21st January 2002.
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 Constitution of India: Principles of government policies
Accordingly, any citizen of India has the right to inform others the situation or condition of the environment and the cause of pollution even though the main criticism is the inefficiency of the State or the untransparency of private sector since such action is supported by the Constitution.
In tasking the State to raise the standard of living of the people and to improve the public health, the Constitution views that it is the duty of the State to create a good environment for the living condition of its citizens.
Additionally, India has a rich heritage of culture with respect to living peacefully with the natural surrounding and to enriching the forests, which must be carried on in order to improve the conditions of the Indian environment.
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 Chief Architect of the Constitution of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
And however, good a Constitution might be, he observed, it was sure to turn out bad if those who were called to work it, happened to be a bad lot; it would turn out to be good if those who were called to work it, happened to be a good lot.
Looking to the future of the country, he showed his anxiety and observed: "What perturbs me greatly is the fact that India has not only once before lost her independence but she lost it by the infidelity and treachery of her own people.
He said that the first thing they must do was to hold fat to the constitutional methods of achieving their social and economic objectives and abandon the methods of civil disobedience, non-co-operation and satyagriha, for those methods were nothing but the grammar of anarchy.
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 Samarth Bharat - Constitution & Institutions of Governance
This alternative to the present Constitution of India was most humbly presented to the Nation.
The Draft was released at National Symposium on the subject of Constitution of India and Alternatives organized at Bhopal on 6th September, 1998.
On the occasion of 50 years of India's Constitution, the President and the Prime Minister publicly clashed swords on the subject of review of the Constitution of India.
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 Eastern Book Company - Practical Lawyer
A case of constitutional significance which Palkhivala argued in 1954 and won before the Bombay High Court was the one concerning the interpretation of Article 29(2) and Article 30 of the Constitution.
Palkhivala believed that a Constitution is intended not merely to provide for the exigencies of the moment but to endure over the ages.
What outraged Palkhivala was the tinkering with the Constitution by the politicians, its frequent amendment as if it were a Municipal Licensing Act or the Drugs Act, the failure to preserve the integrity of our Constitution against many hasty and ill-considered changes, the fruits of passion and ignorance.
www.ebc-india.com /lawyer/articles/2003v5a1.htm   (5158 words)

  
 India4u - Constitution
he constitution was passed by the Constituent Assembly on 26 Nov 1949 and has been fully applicable since 26 Jan 1950.
To abide by the Constitution and respect its ideals and institutions, the National Flag and the National Anthem.
To promote harmony and the spirit of common brotherhood amongst all the people of India transcending religious, linguistic and regional or sectional diversities; to renounce practices derogatory to the dignity of women.
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 CONSTITUTION OF INDIA ASSOCIATION OF CHATTANOOGA
Whereas the nationals of India who are residing in Chattanooga, Tennessee as of May 13, 193 have expressed the desire to form a non-profit cultural and social forum for their benefit and enjoyment through possible activities, it is resolved that such an organization be formed in Chattanooga.
The membership is open to all citizens from India residing in Chattanooga and its immediate vicinity, and also to all such residents of this area who express a willingness to join the Association.
14. Amendment: The approved constitution shall be amended in a duly constituted general body with at least 75% of the attending voting in favor of the amendment.
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 Constitution - India - Equal Employment Opportunities
The Constitution sets out a number of fundamental rights, generally enforceable in the courts, which include equality before the law and equal protection under the law, and prohibition on discrimination by the State on a number of grounds, including sex.
Under article 51A(e) it is the fundamental duty of every citizen of India to renounce practices derogatory to the dignity of women.
The State is required to secure a social order for the promotion of welfare of the people in which social, economic and political justice informs all institutions of national life.
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 Constitution of India
A person born in India and either of whose parents is a citizen of India at the time of birth shall be a citizen of India by birth.
A person born outside India and either of whose parents is a citizen of India at the time of birth shall be a citizen of India by descent.
For Exchange Management purposes, person resident outside India and who is a citizen of India or a person of Indian origin is treated as a Non Resident Indian (NRI).
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 EBC Catalogue - Preamble The Spirit and Backbone of the Constitution of India (Anundoram Borooah Law Lecture)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
No reading of any constitution can be complete without reading it from the beginning to the end.
It is the Preamble wherefrom the constitution commences.
It is no exaggeration to say that the Preamble to the constitution of India is its spirit and backbone.
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 Constitution of
All laws in force in the territory of India immediately before the commencement of this Constitution, in so far as they are inconsistent with the provisions of this Part, shall, to the extent of such inconsistency, be void.
There shall be a Comptroller and Auditor-General of India who shall be appointed by the President by warrant under his hand and seal and shall only be removed from office in like manner and on the like grounds as a Judge of the Supreme Court.
The reports of the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India relating to the accounts of a State shall be submitted to the Governor 1*** of the State, who shall cause them to be laid before the Legislature of the State.
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 Constitution Of India
The Constitution of India is a product of the Constituent Assembly, which had been elected for undivided India.
The salient principles of the proposed Constitution had been outlined by various committees of the Assembly such as the Union Constitution Committee, the Union Powers Committee, Committee on Fundamental Rights, and, after a general discussion of the reports of these Committees, the Assembly appointed a Drafting Committee on the 29th August, 1947.
The Constitution has been amended eighty-six times, the last amendment being the Constitution (Eighty-sixth Amendment) Act, 2002.
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 INDIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Harappa The Indus Valley and the Raj in India and Pakistan "Glimpses of India and Pakistan before 1947 and the story of the ancient Indus Valley.
American knowledge of India is shaped by the American Institute of Indian Studies, a consortium of universities and colleges in the United States at which scholars actively engage in teaching and research about India.
Course on contemporary India - readings On the web is an online guide for educators that includesinformation on Hindu deities, video footage of worship, lesson plansfor teachers, and proposed classroom activities for students.
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 Who Rules India? Part 1 (Indian democracy, constitution of India and central government)
Today's "Republic of India" is the remnant of "British India", the geographical area conquered and ruled by the British in South Asia as their prized colony.
If we examine the situation in India ever since the British colonial rulers left in 1947, we see that the Hindi-speaking regions (called Hindi belt or Hindi heartland) is favored economically by the Indian Government and Hindi language is imposed on others.
India has, over all, an honest democratic system in the sense of "one-adult-one-vote and the majority party or coalition of parties rules the country".
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