Immediate problems and defining

rights in the framing of Indian

constitution
- AAYUSHI JAIN
 Constitution of India

• Supreme law of the country

• Implemented on 26 January 1949.
• Repealed GOI Act 1935 via article 395 of
Indian constitution.
• Declare India as sovereign, socialist, secular,
democratic, republic and provide justice,
equity, liberty and fraternity.
 Immediate Problems

• Communal riots : after partition

• Integration of country: 562 princely states ruled
by independent rajas/ nawabs.
• Displaced persons: problem of refugees and riots
in east-west Punjab and west-east Bengal.
• Economic resources: major jute and cotton
producing areas were under the domain of
Pakistan and mills and factories
remained in India.
 Framing of Constitution

• Constituent assembly: selected members elected

by provisional election of October 1945.
• Public opinion: public debated on all the
resolution on the basis of argument stated in
newspaper and reports.
• Dominant members: Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar
Patel, Rajendra Prasad, B.R. Ambedkar,
K.M. Munshi and Alladi
Krishnaswamy Aiyar.
 Defining Rights

• Problem of separate electorates: arguments

supported by B.Pocker Bahadur, R.V.Dhulekar,
Sardar Patel and Govind Ballabh Pant.
• To do something meaningful: arguments
supported by N.G.Ranga and Jaipal Singh.
• Suppressed from thousands of year:
arguments supported by
B.R.Ambedkar and J. Nagappa.