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Unity and integrity of India was perhaps the single uppermost factor in the minds of the Constitution makers. Comment.

  • UPSC 2019
  • 10 marks
  • Making of the Indian Constitution

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Writing in the shadow of partition, the framers treated India's survival as one state as the precondition of every other goal. Yet Granville Austin reads their purpose as a seamless web of three strands — unity and integrity, democracy and social revolution. Unity was the most urgent strand, not the only one.

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