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Critically examine and comment: “The Constituent Assembly was a one-party body in an essentially one-party country. The Assembly was the Congress and the Congress was India.” (Granville Austin)

  • UPSC 2010
  • 20 marks
  • Making of the Indian Constitution

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Granville Austin's line comes from the first chapter of The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation (1966). Often quoted as an accusation, it was meant as description, and Austin at once qualified it: though the Congress controlled the house, "decision-making in the Assembly was democratic." The task is to test that qualification.

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