Evidence1950
The Constitution comes into force
Parliament House, New Delhi
On 26 January India becomes a sovereign democratic republic; its constitution, drafted under B. R. Ambedkar, is the world's longest.
The Constituent Assembly adopted the text on 26 November 1949, and it came into force two months later, on the anniversary of the Purna Swaraj day of 1930. Article 1: India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States.
The First Schedule sorted those states into four parts, A to D: former British provinces, former princely states and their unions, smaller centrally run states, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. That list is what the next pins rewrite.
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