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Illustrated historyThe Drafting Room
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Independent India begins amid upheaval, displacement and enormous institutional pressure.

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The Drafting Committee must connect rights, government, federalism and accountability in one text.

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Ambedkar’s role is central, but the Constitution remains a collective Assembly project.

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4 November 1948. The Draft enters sustained debate clause by clause.

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26 November 1949. The Constitution is adopted after argument, amendment and explanation.

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The final warning looks beyond the document: political democracy needs social democracy to endure.

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