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What is a Constitution?
A constitution is a written document that contains a set of rules for a government. It defines the fundamental political principles, and establishing the structure, procedures, powers and duties, of a government. By limiting the government’s own reach, most constitutions guarantee certain rights to the people. The term constitution can be applied to any overall law that defines the functioning of a government.

Introduction to the Indian Constitution
The Constitution of India is the world’s lengthiest written constitution with 395 articles and 8 schedules. It contains the good points taken from the constitution’s of many countries in the world. It was passed on 26 Nov 1949 by the ‘The Constituent Assembly’ and is fully applicable since 26 Jan 1950. The Constituent Assembly had been elected for undivided India and held its first sitting on 9th Dec.1946, re-assembled on the 14th August 1947, as The Sovereign Constituent Assembly for the dominion of India. In regard to its composition the members were elected by indirect election by the members of The Provisional Legislative Assemblies (lower house only). At the time of signing 284 out of 299 members of the Assembly were present.

The constitution of India draws extensively from Western legal traditions in its outline of the principles of liberal democracy. It follows a British parliamentary pattern with a lower and upper house. It embodies some Fundamental Rights which are similar to the Bill of Rights declared by the United States constitution. It also borrows the concept of a Supreme Court from the US.

India is a federal system in which residual powers of legislation remain with the central government, similar to that in Canada. The constitution provides detailed lists dividing up powers between central and state governments as in Australia, and it elaborates a set of Directive Principles of State Policy as does the Irish constitution.

The constitution has provision for Schedules to be added to the constitution by amendment. The ten schedules in force cover the designations of the states and union territories; the emoluments for high-level officials; forms of oaths; allocation of the number of seats in the Rajya Sabha. A review of the constitution needs at least two-thirds of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha to pass it.

The Indian constitution is one of the most frequently amended constitutions in the world. Infact the first amendment to it was passed after only a year of the adoption of the constitution and instituted numerous minor changes. Many more amendments followed, a rate of almost two amendments per year since 1950. Most of the constitution can be amended after a quorum of more than half of the members of each house in Parliament passes an amendment with a two-thirds majority vote. Articles pertaining to the distribution of legislative authority between the central and state governments must also be approved by 50 percent of the state legislatures.

Preamble of The Constitution

We, The people of India, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a 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 unity and integrity of the Nation
IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949, do hereby Adopt, Enact and give ourselves this Constitution.

Union Territory
A Union Territory is an administrative division of India, in the federal framework of governance. Unlike the states of India, which have their own elected governments, union territories are ruled directly by the federal government; the President of India appoints an Administrator or Lieutenant-Governor for each territory.
There are seven union territories. Delhi, the capital of India, is also a Union territory. Delhi and Pondicherry have been given partial statehood. Delhi is redefined as National Capital Territory. Delhi and Pondicherry have their own elected legislative assemblies and the executive councils of ministers, but their powers are limited; certain legislation must be reserved for the “consideration and assent” of the President of India. The following are the current Union Territories of India:

Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Chandigarh
Dadra and Nagar Haveli
Daman and Diu
National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT)
Lakshadweep
Pondicherry
Union Territories of India have special rights and status due to their constitutional formation and development. They may be given this constitutional status for reasons such as safeguarding the rights of indigenous cultures of that region, averting political turmoil related to matters of administration and so on.

CAPITALS, GOVERNORS AND CHIEF MINISTERS OF STATES (As on April 01, 2012)
India is a Union of 28 States and 7 Union Territories. Each state has its own government with aGovernor as the figurehead, while each Union Territory is dministered directly by the President through an administrator appointed by him.The Governor of each state is appointed by President.The Chief Minister is the real Head of the State Government. Each State has a Council of Ministers to aid and advise the Governor in the exercise of his functions.The council of ministers is collectively responsible to the State Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha). A list of state and union territory capitals in India, includingthe name of Governors and Chief ministers of different States of India is given here in this

 

S. No.	STATE	CAPITAL	GOVERNOR	CHIEF MINISTER
1.	Andhra Pradesh	Hyderabad	Shri. E. S. L. Narasimhan	Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy
2.	Arunachal Pradesh	Itanagar	General (Rtd.) J.J. Singh	Shri Nabam Tuki
3.	Assam	Dispur	Janaki Ballav  Pattanaik	Shri Tarun Gogoi
4.	Bihar	Patna	Sh. Devanand Konwar	Shri Nitish Kumar
5.	Chhattisgarh	Raipur	Shri Shekhar Dutt	Dr. Raman Singh
6.	Goa	Panaji	Shri B. V. Wanchoo	Shri Manohar Parrikar
7.	Gujarat	Gandhi Nagar	Dr. Kamla Beniwal	Shri Narendra Modi
8.	Haryana	Chandigarh	Shri Jagannath Pahadia	Bhupinder Singh Hooda
9.	Himachal Pradesh	Shimla	Urmila Ben Patel	Prem Kumar Dhumal
10.	Jammu Kashmir	Srinagar and	Sh. N. N. Vohra	Omar Abdullah
		Jammu
11.	Jharkhand	Ranchi	Dr. Syed Ahmed	Arjun Munda
12.	Karnataka	Bangalore	Shri Hans Raj Bhardwaj	Jagadish Shettar
13.	Kerala	Thiruvananthapuram	Shri Hans Raj Bhardwaj	Oommen Chandy
14.	Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal	Shri. Ram Naresh Yadav	Shivraj Singh Chouhan
15.	Maharashtra	Mumbai	K. Sankara Narayanan	Prithviraj Chavan
16.	Manipur	Imphal	Sh. Gurbachan Jagat	Okram Ibobi Singh
17.	Meghalaya	Shillong	Sh. Ranjit Shekhar	Mukul Sangma
			Mooshahary
18.	Mizoram	Aizawl	Shri Vakkom Purushothaman	Shri Lal Thanhawla
19.	Nagaland	Kohima	Shri Nikhil Kumar	Neiphiu Rio
20.	Orissa	Bhubaneshwar	Murlidhar Chandrakant	Naveen Patnaik
			Bhandare
21.	Punjab	Chandigarh	Shri Shivraj V. Patil	Shri Parkash Singh Badal
22.	Rajasthan	Jaipur	Smt. Margaret Alva	Shri Ashok Gehlot
23.	Sikkim	Gangtok	Sh. Balmiki Prasad Singh	Shri Pawan Chamling
24.	Tamil Nadu	Chennai	Shri Thiru. K Rosaiah	Jayalalithaa Jayaram
25.	Tripura	Agartala	Dr. D Y Patil	Shri Manik Sarkar
26.	Uttar Pradesh	Lucknow	Shri B L Joshi	Shri Akhilesh Yadav
27.	Uttarakhand	Dehradun	Shri Aziz Qureshi	Shri Vijay Bahuguna
28.	West Bengal	Kolkata	Shri M. K Narayanan	Mamta Banerjee
CAPTIALS, LT. GOVERNORS ADMINISTRATORS AND CHIEF MINSITERS OF UNION TERRITORIE (As on May 6, 2011)
S. No.	UNION TERRITORY	CAPITAL	Lt. GOVERNOR/ADMIN.	CHIEF MINISTER
1.	Andaman and	Port Blair	Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Bhopinder Singh	______
	Nicobar Islands
2.	Chandigarh	Chandigarh	Shri Shivraj V. Patil	______
3.	Dadar and Nagar Haveli	Silvassa	Satya Gopal	______
4.	Daman and Diu	Daman	Satya Gopal	______
5.	Delhi	Delhi	Tajender  Khanna	Smt. Sheila Dikshit
6.	Lakshadeep	Kavaratti	Shri J K Dadu	______
7.	Puducherry	Puducherry	Shri Thiru Iqbal Singh	N. Rangaswamy

 

List of all presidents of India

President of India is the head of state in India and first citizen of India.In hindi we called President as Rashtrapati. President is the supreme commander of armed forces in India.In India President is elected by the members of the Parliament houses Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.There are till now 12 presidents of India. Time period of India President is 5 years. Dr.Rajendra Prasad is the 1st president of India.He was elected president in Jan 26, 1950.Here in this resource there is list of all India Presidents :

1. Dr. Rajendra Prasad was the first President of India. He was president of India from Jan 26, 1950 to May 13, 1962.

2. Dr.Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was the second President of India. He was president of India from May 13, 1962 to May 13, 1967.

3. Dr.Zakir Husain was the third President of India. He was president of India from May 13, 1967 to May 13, 1969.

Muhammad Hidayatullah *Acting Preodent 1969 July 20 -1969 august 24

4 Varahagiri Venkata Giri was the forth President of India. He was president of India from Aug 24, 1969 to Aug 24, 1974.

5. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed was the Fifth President of India. He was president of India from Aug 24, 1974 to Feb 11, 1977.

Basappa Danappa Jatti *Jatti was the vice president of India during Ahmed’s term of office, and was sworn in as Acting President of India upon Ahmed’s death. He earlier functioned as the Chief Minister for the State of Mysore.,11 February 1977 to 25 July 1977

6 Shri Neelam Sanjiva Reddy was the Sixth President of India. He was president of India from Jul 25, 1977 to Jul 25, 1982.

7. Giani Zail Singh was the Seventh President of India. He was president of India from Jul 25, 1982 to Jul 25, 1987.

8. R.Venkataraman was the Eighth President of India. He was president of India from Jul 25, 1987 to Jul 25, 1992.

9 Dr.Shanker Dayal Sharma was the Nineth President of India. He was president of India from Jul 25, 1992 to Jul 25, 1997
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10. Kocheril Raman Narayanan was the Tenth President of India 25 July 1997 25 July 2002

11 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam is the Eleventh President of India. He is president of India from Jul 25, 2002 to Jul 25, 2007.

12 Pratibha Patil is the Tweleveth President of India and first women President of India . He is president of India since to Jul 25, 2007

13 Pranab Mukherjee 25 July 2012 Incumbent Mohammad Hamid Ansari 2012 election
Mukherjee held various posts in the cabinet ministry for the Government of India such as Finance Minister, Foreign Minister, Defence Minister and Deputy Chairperson of the Planning Commission.He is from West Bengal and the first Bengali President of the country.

List of all Prime Ministers of  India

No	Name	Entered office	Left office	Date of Birth	Date of Death	Political party
1	Jawahar Lal Nehru	15-Aug-1947	27-May-1964	14-Nov-1889	27-May-1964	Indian NationalCongress
2	Gulzarilal Nanda	27-May-1964	9 June 1964 *	4 July 1898	15-Jan-1998	Indian NationalCongress
3	Lal Bahadur Shastri	09-Jun-1964	11-Jan-1966	02-Oct-1904	11-Jan-1966	Indian NationalCongress
4	Gulzarilal Nanda	11-Jan-1966	24 January 1966 *	4-July-1898	15-Jan-1998	Indian NationalCongress
5	Indira Gandhi	24-Jan-1966	24-Mar-1977	19-Nov-1917	31-Oct-1984	Indian NationalCongress
6	Morarji Desai	24-Mar-1977	28-Jul-1979	29-Feb-1996	10-Apr-1995	Janata Party
7	Charan Singh	28-Jul-1979	14-Jan-1980	23-Dec-1902	29-May-1987	Janata Party
8	Indira Gandhi	14-Jan-1980	31-Oct-1984	19-Nov-1917	31-Oct-1984	Indian NationalCongress
9	Rajiv Gandhi	31-Oct-1984	02-Dec-1989	20-Aug-1944	21-May-1991	Indian National Congress(Indira)
10	Vishwanath PratapSingh	02-Dec-1989	10-Nov-1990	25-Jun-1931	27-Nov-2008	Janata Dal
11	Chandra Shekhar	10-Nov-1990	21-Jun-1991	01-Jul-1927	08-Jul-2007	Samajwadi JanataParty
12	P. V. Narasimha Rao	21-Jun-1991	16-May-1996	28-Jun-1921	23-Dec-2004	Indian NationalCongress
13	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	16-May-1996	01-Jun-1996	25-Dec-1924	Alive	Bharatiya JanataParty
14	H. D. Deve Gowda	01-Jun-1996	21-Apr-1997	18-May-1933	Alive	Janata Dal
15	Inder Kumar Gujral	21-Apr-1997	19-Mar-1998	04-Dec-1919	Alive	Janata Dal
16	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	19-Mar-1998	22-May-2004	25-Dec-1924	Alive	Bharatiya JanataParty
17	Dr. Manmohan Singh	22-May-2004	Incumbent	26-Sep-1932	Alive