CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
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.
1. Substituted. by the Constitution (Forty-second Amendment) Act, 1976, section. 2, for SOVEREIGN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICw.e.f. 3-1-1977.
2. Substituted. by the Constitution (Forty-second Amendment) Act, 1976, section. 2, for unity of the Nation w.e.f. 3-1-1977.
CONTENTS
PART I : THE UNION AND ITS TERRITORY
PART IV : DIRECTIVE PRINCIPLES OF STATE POLICY
CHAPTER I : THE EXECUTIVE
CHAPTER II : PARLIAMENT
CHAPTER III : LEGISLATIVE POWERS OF THE PRESIDENT
CHAPTER IV : THE UNION JUDICIARY
CHAPTER V : COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR-GENERAL OF INDIA
PART VI : THE STATES
CHAPTER I : GENERAL
CHAPTER II : THE EXECUTIVE
CHAPTER III : THE STATE LEGISLATURE
CHAPTER IV : LEGISLATIVE POWER OF THE GOVERNOR
CHAPTER V : THE HIGH COURTS IN THE STATES
CHAPTER VI : SUBORDINATE COURTS
PART VII : THE STATES IN PART B OF THE FIRST SCHEDULE
PART VIII : THE UNION TERRITORIES
PART IX : THE PANCHAYATS
PART X : THE SCHEDULED AND TRIBAL AREAS
PART XI : RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNION AND THE STATES
CHAPTER I : LEGISLATIVE RELATIONS
CHAPTER II : ADMINISTRATIVE RELATIONS
PART XII : FINANCE, PROPERTY, CONTRACTS AND SUITS
CHAPTER I : FINANCE
CHAPTER II : BORROWING
CHAPTER IV : RIGHT TO PROPERTY
PART XIV : SERVICES UNDER THE UNION AND THE STATES
CHAPTER I : SERVICES
CHAPTER II : PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
PART XVI : SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO CERTAIN CLASSES
CHAPTER I : LANGUAGE OF THE UNION
CHAPTER II : REGIONAL LANGUAGES
CHAPTER III : LANGUAGE OF THE SUPREME COURT, HIGH COURTS, ETC.
CHAPTER IV : SPECIAL DIRECTIVES
PART XVIII : EMERGENCY PROVISIONS
PART XIX : MISCELLANEOUS
PART XX : AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION
PART XXI : TEMPORARY, TRANSITIONAL AND SPECIAL PROVISIONS
PART XXII : SHORT TITLE, COMMENCEMENT, AUTHORITATIVE TEXT IN