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.
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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).