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Difference b/w Fundamental rights and DPSP

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Fundamental rights as its name suggest means the rights which are very essential for the complete development of the people whether its intellectual, spiritual and moral development. These rights are enlisted in Part – III of Indian Constitution. Article 12 to 35 deals with the fundamental rights. While DPSP are the guidelines for the government to be kept in mind while framing laws, policies for the people. DPSP helps the government to do certain things for the welfare of the people. DPSP are enlisted in Part – IV of the Constitution. Article 36 to 51 deals with the DPSP, they are borrowed from Ireland.

Preamble of the Indian Constitution

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Preamble is an introduction or preface to the Constitution. It is also called as ‘Identity card of the Constitution’. As per K.M. Munshi Preamble is a horoscope of the Indian Constitution. In simple terms, we can say that just after seeing the index of a book we get an idea about the book, similarly after seeing the Preamble one gets an idea about nature of the Indian state i.e Sovereign, Socialist, Secular, Democratic and Republic. It starts from “We, the people of India”……
Preamble of the Constitution is based on the objective resolution.

Evolution of states and Union territories in India

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India got independence on 15th August 1947 from British rule. Today we have 28 States and 8 Union territories in India but at the time of independence, situation was not like that. The evolution of states and union territories in India has a long history which we are going to read in this article. Around 552 princely states were there at that time. It was nothing but efforts of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Ji and Shri VP Menon Ji that led to joining of 549 princely states in India initially. Later, remaining 3 princely states i.e Hyderabad, Junagarh and Kashmir were also joined India by different means like…..

The Union & its territory : Part I (Article 1 to 4)

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India i.e Bharat is a Union of states while United states of America (USA) is a coming together federation. Difference between both of them is that in a federation, division of powers is strict, while in Union, we are tilted towards centre or central government. That’s why India is a Union not a federation. Here in union, no states have right to secede from the union of India which is very important aspect for unity and integrity of India. Article 1 to 4 under Part I of the Indian Constitution deals with the Union and its territory.

Important Committees of Constituent assembly

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Indian constituent assembly formed various committess for handling different tasks related to the formation of the Constitution of India. There were around 22 such committess of constituent assembly which were classified into major and minor committees. On 9th December 1946, Constituent assembly met for the first time. The constituent assembly completed the drafting of Constitution …

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Important amendments in Indian Constitution

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Important constitutional amendments in Indian history :
Constitution is supreme in our country. Our Constitution makers put strong efforts to give us a comprehensive and detailed Constitution, they had gone through the Constitution of about 60 countries and borrowed good things from their Constitution as well. Finally, it took 2 years 11 months and 18 days to create the Constitution of India. Our Constitution makers also made scope of amendment in the Constitution according to the future needs.
Accordingly, more than 100 amendments are done till now. List of these amendments are given below.

Important acts passed during British rule in India

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There were various acts passed by the British during their rule in India. It is divided into 2 parts i.e Company rule (1773-1858) and Crown rule (1858-1947). Questions in competitive exams are always asked from this topic. Here, we provide the complete list of these acts alongwith questions for your practice at the end of this topic.

Important articles of Indian Constitution

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The Constitution of India had 395 articles in 22 parts and 8 schedules at the time of its commencement. Now the Constitution of India has 448 articles in 25 parts and 12 schedules. List of important articles from exam’s point of view is provided here. Also, 15 questions are provided at the end for your practice.

Parts of Indian Constitution

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The Constitution of India is the longest Constitution in the world. It had 395 articles in 22 parts and 8 schedules at the time of its commencement. Now the Constitution of India has 448 articles in 25 parts and 12 schedules. Here, you can read about all parts of Indian Constitution.

Important sources of Indian Constitution

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Here, you can read about Sources of Indian Constitution like (Fundamental rights – USA); (Single citizenship – UK); (DPSP – Ireland); (Concurrent list – Australia) ; (Federal scheme – Govt. of India act of 1935) in detail with some questions related to the topic as well in the end to practice.