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 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, we do HEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION.