{"id":2155,"date":"2024-04-25T02:58:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T21:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2024-04-25T02:58:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T21:28:40","slug":"q-what-was-the-exact-constitutional-status-of-india-on-26th-january-1950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-what-was-the-exact-constitutional-status-of-india-on-26th-january-1950","title":{"rendered":"Q.\u00a0What was the exact constitutional status of India on 26th January, 1950?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"mcq wp-block-list\">\n<li>A Democratic Republic<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A Sovereign Democratic Republic<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A Sovereign Secular Democratic Republic<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (b) A Sovereign Democratic Republic<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"notes-hd-662953451b1db\">Notes:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Constituent Assembly on 26th November, 1949, adopted, enacted and gave citizens their own Constitution.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>original Preamble<\/strong>, adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 26th November, 1949 and came into force on 26th January, 1950, declared India\u00a0as\u00a0a\u00a0\u201c<strong>Sovereign Democratic Republic<\/strong>\u201d.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/knowindia.india.gov.in\/republic-day-celebration\/republic-of-india.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Constitutional status of India on 26th January, 1950<\/a>\u00a0was a\u00a0<strong>Sovereign Democratic Republic\u00a0<\/strong>as the words \u2013 Socialist and Secular were added to the Preamble by the 42nd Constitutional Amendment Act, 1976.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Presently, the Preamble to the Indian Constitution defines India to be a Sovereign, Socialist, Secular and Democratic Republic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"constitution-day\">Constitution Day<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It is celebrated on\u00a0<strong>26<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0November<\/strong>\u00a0every year.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is also known as\u00a0<strong>National Law Day.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On this day in 1949, the\u00a0<strong>Constituent Assembly of India formally adopted the Constitution of India<\/strong>\u00a0that came into force on 26th January 1950.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment on 19th November 2015, notified the decision of the Government of India\u00a0<strong>to celebrate 26 November as \u2018Constitution Day\u2019.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer: (b) A Sovereign Democratic Republic Notes: Constitution Day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[39],"years":[52],"class_list":["post-2155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-indian-polity","years-52"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":39,"label":"Indian Polity"}],"years":[{"value":52,"label":"2021"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":39,"name":"Indian Polity","slug":"indian-polity","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":39,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":188,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}