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The Constitution of India is the ‘cornerstone of a nation’ (Granville Austin). Analyze.

  • UPSC 2023
  • 15 marks
  • Making of the Indian Constitution

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Granville Austin's subtitle to The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation (1966) is a claim, not a compliment. In 1950 the nation was not yet made; the Constitution was the foundation stone on which it would be built. India reversed the European sequence: here the constitution was to make the nation, not merely record one.

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