India's founding document answers your questions, in Ambedkar's own words. 470 articles. 104 amendments. Your rights, cited.
The Constituent Assembly studied every major constitution in force and took what worked: parliamentary government from Britain, fundamental rights from America, directive principles from Ireland. Ambedkar called it working out the best in the light of India's needs. Tap a flag to see what was borrowed.
Each card cites the borrowed feature and where it landed in the
text.
The definitive study: Granville Austin,
The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation
(Oxford Univ. Press), the standard history of the drafting.
Ambedkar's team shipped the longest constitution ever written, then built in the power to amend it. 104 amendments later, it is still in production.