Why the Constitution Makers Chose Not to Include ‘Socialist’ and ‘Secular’ in the Original Preamble???
When the Indian Constitution was being framed between 1946 and 1949, the framers were acutely aware that they were laying the foundations of a sovereign, democratic republic born out of a long and painful freedom struggle. At that moment in history, India was a newly independent country, emerging from the trauma of Partition and trying…