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:ii`iiii (iiiii:iii :iiiii, ~ii`ii`ii-i, :zs ii iii z ii (s::zz :i, i ii iii
i :iii -i .ii`i:iii`-ii
THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA

PREAMBLE

WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly
resolved to constitute India into a
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[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
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[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.


3
Subs. by the Constitution (Forty-second Amendment) Act, 1976, s. 2, for SOVEREIGN
DEMOCRAIC REPUBLIC (w.e.f. 3-1-1977).
4
Subs. by s. 2., ibid., for unity of the Nation (w.e.f. 3-1-1977).