Constitution: Why and How?
NCERT Class 11 Political Science, Indian Constitution at Work, Chapter 1 asks why India needed a Constitution and how the Constituent Assembly framed it between 1946 and 1949. It sketches the colonial background, the Cabinet Mission plan, the membership of the Assembly and the Objectives Resolution moved by Nehru. The chapter then explains inheritance from the freedom struggle and adaptation from other constitutions, closing with how debate and compromise gave the document both authority and legitimacy.
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