India was under the British subjugation for nearly two centuries (1757- 1947). Discuss in detail about Indian democracy but with the attainment of freedom from the British on 15 August 1947 India stood as the biggest democratic country in the world, a constitution is very essential for an independent and democratic country, because the constitution and democracy both are complementary to each other.
As such, Discuss in detail about Indian democracy there cannot be a truly democratic state without having a constitution of its own. Similarly, the role of a constitution is meaningless without having democracy. In fact, the process of making a constitution had begun even before India attained independence. in the general elections held in July 1945 in England, the labor party comes to power and the new government took the decision to declare independence to India.
Accordingly, the labour party government of England filled outermost necessity of a constitution for the new democratic state that is India.as such, the British government sent the cabinet mission to India in March, 1946 to create a congenial environment and to make necessary preparation for framing in new constitution of India. the cabinet mission was a unit of three cabinet ministers of England.
With the initiative of the cabinet mission, aconstituent assembly was formed and its first ever sitting was held on 9 December 1946. The senior member of the constituent assembly Dr sachchidananda sinhaPresided over the first sitting. Dr. Rajendra Prasad was elected the permanent president of the constituent assembly.altogether 11:00 sittings of the constituent assembly were held in election to the preparation of new constitution of India.
The constituent assembly constituted a drafting committee on 29 August, 1947. the drafting committee which was constituted with seven specialists all belonging to divergent fields was given the great responsibility of preparing the draught of the constitution. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar who was the chairman of drafting committee. After 3 years long rigorous labour the drafting committee prepared the draught copy of the new Indian constitution and the same was handed over its president Dr. Rajendra Prasad on 26 November, 1949. with the signature on the draught copy of the new constitution by Dr. Rajendra Prasad the people of India got a new constitution for them self. but the new constitution came into force only on 26 January 1950 due to many administrative and other related problems it is to be noted that India was government in accordance with the provisions of government of India act 1935 between the period from 15 August 1947 to 26 January 1950.
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