About the Book: We, the People, and Our Constitution
The foundational ideas of Indian democracy—fraternity, equality, secularism,
justice—are not alien concepts. As this book shows, from the earliest attempt
with the 'Constitution of India Bill in 1895, whose authorship is unknown, to
the 1925 Commonwealth of India Bill, the Motilal Nehru Constitutional Draft of
1928 and various Congress resolutions to the Constituent Assembly of 1946, we
see these basic ideas reiterated again and again. With the adoption of the
Constitution, 'we, the people merely affirmed our faith in an idea of freedom
that thousands of Indians had fought and died for.
Among the many distinguishing features of our