EXTRAORDINARY
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
NEW DELHI, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1949
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY OF INDIA
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 26th November, 1949
No. CA/83/Cons./49.—The Constitution of India as passed by the Constituent Assembly has been authenticated by the President of the Assembly by affixing his signature thereto this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949, and is hereby published for general information:—
THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
Preamble.WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN 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 of the Nation;
IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949, do HEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION.
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