Indian Constitution at the Time Of 1947 - How was it Made

The Indian constitution was adopted on 26th November 1949 by the constituent assembly, many of us have this questions like ;

• Was there any document before 1947?
• How did the first Prime Minister(PM) of India take Oath Then?

When India wasn't partitioned there was a formal Constitution made by the Constituent Assembly which has been elected for "Undivided India".  The first meeting was held on 09-December-1946 and then on 14-August-1947, it was reassembled as Constituent Assembly for "Divided India".

The Constituent Assembly members were elected by an Indirect Election by the members of the Provincial Legislative Assembly, which was established under the Government Of India Act - 1935. The assembly was composed roughly along the lines suggested by the plan proposed by the committee of the British cabinet, known as "Cabinet Mission"

Plans Of Cabinet Mission

According to the Cabinet Mission plan:

1. Each province and each princely state or group of states were allotted seats proportional to their respective population in the ratio of 1:10,00,000. So as a result Provinces under British control elected 292 members while the princely states were allotted a minimum of 93 seats each.
2. The three communities Muslims, Sikhs and General shared the seats in each province and they were distributed among themselves in proportion to their respective population.
3. By the Method of Proportional Representation with the single transferable vote, members of each community elected their own representatives.

After all, India was Divided, on 24 - January - 1950 284 members were present and appended their signatures to the Constitution and it was finally passed and came into existence on 26 - January - 1950, the Constitution of India was thus framed against the backdrop of the horrendous violence that partition unleashed.

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