1949 AND 1950: IN THE HISTORY OF INDIA

After the independence movement and the post- independence troubles of partition, it was time for India to build a nation where people remain in power, where the government is run by the people and for the people. It was also necessary for the political leaders to ensure that the basic principles of democracy are not compromised either by the present government or by the governments that came in future. It was the time for the birth of the soul of Indian democracy in the name of the Indian Constitution.

1949 saw the nationalization of Reserve Bank of India, an important player in India’s financial matters. Tripura became a part of the Indian State and India became a part of the Commonwealth of Nation in the same. Apart from this, a big leap was taken forward by the birth of the Constitution of India. The Indian Constitution was adopted by the Indian Constituent Assembly, an indirectly elected constituent body meant to draft the Constitution of India, on 26^th November, 1949. Two months later, on 26^th January, 1950, the constitution came to force replacing the Government of India Act, 1935 as the governing document of the Indian Territory. In the same year, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the iron man of India, died on 15^th December, 1950

Indian Constitution

The Indian Constitution forms the bases of the Republic of India. The constitution came to force on 26^th January, 1950 as a remembrance to the Purna Swaraj Declaration of 1930. The constitution of India was drafted by a constituent assembly composed of the prominent men in the Indian Independence Struggle.  It represented every part of the country and every section of the Indian Society, a step which was important to draft the constitution in awareness of the ground realities.

With the coming of Indian Constitution, Dr. Rajendra Prasad became the first president of India and Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru the first Prime Minister.