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Class 12 History Notes Chapter 15

Framing the Constitution The

Beginning of a New Era

May 20, 2019 by Bhagya

Class 12 History Notes Chapter 15 Framing

the Constitution The Beginning of a New Era

• Indian constitution was prepared by the learned members of the Constituent
Assembly.
• The constitution was framed between December 1946 to December, 1949.
• Each clause of the constitution was discussed by the Constituent Assembly. All in
all, eleven sessions of Constituent Assembly were held and 165 sittings took
place.
• Different committees and sub-committees carried out the work of revising and
refining the drafts of the constitution.
• The Constituent Assembly had 299 members. The assembly adopted the
constitution on 26 November 1949, but it came into effect on January 26, 1950.
• The members of the Constituent Assembly were elected on the basis of provincial
election held in 1946.
• Muslim League did not participate in the meeting of Constitutent Assembly. These
meetings were held before the partition of India.
• The Constituent Assembly remained as a one party show as its 82% members
belonged to Congress party.
• The meeting of the Constituent Assembly was influenced by the public opinion.
The arguments of various sections were published in all leading newspapers and
there was a public debate on all proposals.
• Dr. B.R. Ambedkar played an important role in Constituent Assembly. He acted as
the Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the constitution.
• Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru moved the objective resolution in the Constituent Assembly.
• Objective Resolution was a historic resolution which defined the ideals of the
constitution of free Indian.
o It proclaimed India as an independent sovereign Republic.
o It guaranteed justice, equality and freedom to all citizens of India .
o It assured that safeguards shall be provided for all the minorities, backward
and tribal area.
• By 1949, most of the members of the Constituent Assembly agreed that the
resolution of separate electorate is against the interest of minorities.
• A socialist leader and the leader of the peasant movement N.G. Ranga urged that
the word minorities must be interpreted in economic terms.