Preamble

¶WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a ¹[SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC] and to secure to all its citizens:

¶JUSTICE, social, economic and political;

¶LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship;

¶EQUALITY of status and of opportunity;

¶and to promote among them all

¶FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the ²[unity and integrity of the Nation];

¶IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949, do HEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION.

¶1. Subs. by the Constitution (Forty-second Amendment) Act, 1976, s.2, for "SOVEREIGN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC" (w.e.f. 3-1-1977). 2. Subs. by s. 2, ibid., for "Unity of the Nation" (w.e.f. 3-1-1977).