Original Manuscript of Constitution of India

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose drew the day of freedom nearer.: Constituent Assembly Debates CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY OF INDIA DEBATES (PROCEEDINGS) - VOLUME XI Saturday, the 19th November 1949 Prof. Shibban Lal Saksena (United Provinces: General): "My thoughts go today to the millions of my countrymen, those unknown heroes and martyrs in our freedom struggle during the last 92 years since the first war of India's independence was fought in 1857. It is because of the sacrifices of these millions of our countrymen that this day has dawned. Among those heroes and martyrs, we cannot forget those great patriots who have been now left in areas known as Pakistan. My heart is heavy when I remember the figure of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan and his thousands of Khudai Khidmatgars who spilled their blood for India's freedom and who are today languishing in the jails of Pakistan. I was one of the staunchest opponents of partition and I feel we are guilty of betrayal of th...

Secularism and Spirituality training   Constituent Assembly Debates,   6 December 1948 Shri H. V. Kamath     ... Sir, I would like to draw the attention of the House to the value and the importance that all our teachers, from time immemorial, from the Rishis and the Seers of the Upanishads down to Mahatma Gandhi and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose have attached to spiritual training and spiritual instruction. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose went to the length of prescribing spiritual training and spiritual instruction to the soldiers of the Azad Hind Fouj. In the curriculum, in the syllabus of the Azad Hind Fouj, this item of spiritual instruction was included... .................................................................................................................... Demand for N Holiday on Birthday of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Constituent Assembly Debates 22 January 1948 Mr. H. V. Kamath (C. P. & Berar: General):...

  "God" In Oath   was added by invoking   oath used to be taken by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose   Constituent Assembly Debates, 27 December 1948 Shri H. V. Kamath    : ...for the words 'I, A. B. do solemnly affirm (or swear)', the following be substituted:- 'In the name of God, I, A. B, do swear' or alternatively, 'I, A. B. do solemnly affirm'." Shri H. V. Kamath    ... I therefore feel that in a Constitution, apart from invoking the grace and blessing of God in the Preamble itself, when a solemn thing like an oath or affirmation is   concerned, it will be an empty performance, if when we take a solemn oath we do not do it in the name of God. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in Singapore, when he became the Commander-in-Chief and Provincial President of the Arzee Hukumat-e-Azad Hind, took the oath which ran thus: "Ishwar ke nam par main pratigy karta hun." Therefore, Sir, in the end, I would appeal to the Hous...

•        Monday, the 6th December 1948 Shri H. V. Kamath ...value and the importa nce that all our teachers, from time immemorial, from the Rishis and the Seers of the Upanishads down to Mahatma Gandhi and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose have attached to spiritual training and spiritual instruction . Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose went to the length of prescribing spiritual training and spiritual instruction to the soldiers of the Azad Hind Fouj . In the curriculum, in the syllabus of the Azad Hind Fouj , this item of spiritual instruction was included. When I say, Sir, that the State shall not establish or endow or patronise any particular religion, I mean the formal religions of the word; I do not mean religion in the widest and in the deepest sense, and that meaning of religion as the highest value of the spirit, I have sought to incorporate in the second part of the amendment. That is, the State shall do all in its  power to impart spiritual training an...