Constituent Assembly of India

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constituent assembly legislative body

The Constituent Assembly of India was the sovereign body of elected representatives that drafted and adopted the Constitution of independent India between 1946 and 1950.

Aliases (4)

Provisional Parliament of India ×2
Constituent Assembly ×1
Drafting of the Constitution of India ×1
Indian Constituent Assembly ×1

Statements (62)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	constituent assembly → legislative body →
adoptedConstitutionDate	1949-11-26 →
adoptedInstrument	Constitution of India → National Anthem of India → National Flag of India → National Song of India →
adoptedPreambleDate	1949-11-26 →
alsoKnownAs	Constituent Assembly → Indian Constituent Assembly →
cameIntoForceOfConstitutionDate	1950-01-26 →
chairmanOfAdvisoryCommitteeOnFundamentalRights	Vallabhbhai Patel →
chairmanOfDraftingCommittee	B. R. Ambedkar →
chairmanOfProvincialConstitutionCommittee	Vallabhbhai Patel →
chairmanOfUnionConstitutionCommittee	Jawaharlal Nehru →
country	India →
dissolutionReason	replacement by democratic Parliament under Constitution of India →
draftingCommitteeMember	Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer → B. L. Mitter → B. R. Ambedkar → D. P. Khaitan → K. M. Munshi → Md. Saadulla → N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar → T. T. Krishnamachari →
electionMethod	indirect election by provincial legislative assemblies →
endDate	1950-01-24 →
establishedBy	British Government → Cabinet Mission Plan →
firstMeetingDate	1946-12-09 →
firstMeetingPresidedBy	Sachchidananda Sinha →
historicalEra	Indian independence movement →
includedRepresentativesFrom	British Indian provinces → princely states →
languageOfDebate	English → Hindustani →
lastSessionDate	1950-01-24 →
legalSuccessor	Provisional Parliament of India →
location	New Delhi →
meetsIn	Central Hall of Parliament House → Constitution Hall →
notableMember	Hansa Mehta → Jawaharlal Nehru → Maulana Abul Kalam Azad → Rajkumari Amrit Kaur → Sarojini Naidu → Shyama Prasad Mukherjee → Vallabhbhai Patel →
numberOfMembers	389 →
numberOfMembersAfterPartition	299 →
numberOfSessions	11 →
numberOfSittings	165 →
politicalPartyDominance	Indian National Congress →
president	Rajendra Prasad →
purpose	adopt Constitution of India → draft Constitution of India →
replacedBy	Lok Sabha → Parliament of India → Rajya Sabha →
sovereignty	sovereign body →
startDate	1946-12-09 →
vicePresident	H. C. Mukherjee →

Referenced by (19)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Constitution of India → Tiranga →	adoptedBy
Constituent Assembly of India ("Indian Constituent Assembly") → Constituent Assembly of India ("Constituent Assembly") →	alsoKnownAs
Indian National Congress → Rajendra Prasad →	participatedIn
Legislative Assembly (British India) → Legislative Assembly (British India) ("Provisional Parliament of India") →	replacedBy
Jana Gana Mana →	adoptionContext
Sucheta Kriplani →	associatedWith
Vande Mataram →	declaredNationalSongBy
Tryst with Destiny speech →	deliveredAt
Article 80 of the Constitution of India →	draftedBy
Article 52 of the Constitution of India →	enactedBy
Article 84 of the Constitution of India →	framedBy
Constituent Assembly of India ("Provisional Parliament of India") →	legalSuccessor
Dominion of India →	legislature
B. R. Ambedkar →	memberOf
B. R. Ambedkar ("Drafting of the Constitution of India") →	notableWork