1. Which country’s Constitution was the first to begin with a Preamble?
2. What does the term ‘preamble’ refer to?
3. What does the Preamble contain?
4. Who called the Preamble the ‘identity card of the Constitution’?
5. What is the Preamble to the Indian Constitution based on?
6. When was the Preamble amended, and what three new words were added?
7. What is the present form of the Preamble?
8. What are the four ingredients or components revealed by the Preamble?
9. What are the key words explained in the Preamble?
10. What does the word ‘sovereign’ imply for India?
11. What was India’s declaration in 1949 regarding its membership of the Commonwealth of Nations?
13. As a sovereign state, what can India do regarding foreign territory?
14. When was the term ‘socialist’ added to the Constitution, and by which amendment?
15. What did the Congress party adopt in its Avadi session in 1955 regarding socialism?
16. What kind of socialism is the Indian brand?
17. What does democratic socialism in India hold faith in?
18. What does the Supreme Court say about the aim of ‘Democratic socialism’?
19. What is Indian socialism a blend of?
20. How has the new Economic Policy (1991) affected the socialist credentials of the Indian State?
21. When was the term ‘secular’ added to the Constitution, and by which amendment?
23. What concept of secularism does the Indian Constitution embody?
24. What does a democratic polity, as stipulated in the Preamble, base its power on?
25. What are the two types of democracy?
26. What is direct democracy, and what are its four devices?
27. What is indirect democracy?
28. What are the two kinds of representative democracy?
29. What kind of democracy does the Indian Constitution provide for?
30. What are the manifestations of the democratic character of the Indian polity?
31. What does the term ‘democratic’ in the Preamble embrace in a broader sense?
32. What did Dr. Ambedkar stress in his concluding speech about political and social democracy?
33. What are the two categories a democratic polity can be classified into?
36. What does the term ‘republic’ in our Preamble indicate?
37. What two additional things does a republic mean?
38. What three distinct forms of ‘justice’ does the Preamble embrace?
39. What does social justice denote?
40. What does economic justice denote?
41. What does a combination of social justice and economic justice denote?
42. What does political justice imply?
43. From where has the ideal of justice—social, economic and political—been taken?
44. What does the term ‘liberty’ mean?
45. How does the Preamble secure liberty to all citizens of India?
46. What are the ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity in our Preamble taken from?
47. What does the term ‘equality’ mean?
48. What dimensions of equality does the Preamble embrace?
49. What are the provisions in the chapter on Fundamental Rights that ensure civic equality?
50. What are the two provisions in the Constitution that seek to achieve political equality?
51. What does Article 39 secure to men and women?
52. What does Fraternity mean?
53. How does the Constitution promote fraternity?
54. What two things does the Preamble declare fraternity has to assure?
55. What word was added to the Preamble by the 42nd Constitutional Amendment (1976)?
56. What does K.M. Munshi say the phrase ‘dignity of the individual’ signifies?
57. What does the phrase ‘unity and integrity of the nation’ embrace?
58. What is the significance of the Preamble?
59. What did Sir Alladi Krishnaswami Iyer say about the Preamble?
60. What did K.M. Munshi call the Preamble?
61. What did Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava say about the importance of the Preamble?
62. What did Sir Ernest Barker describe the Preamble as?
63. What did M. Hidayatullah observe about the Preamble?
64. What was the controversy about the Preamble?
65. What did the Supreme Court say in the Berubari Union case (1960) regarding the Preamble?
66. What did the Supreme Court hold in the Kesavananda Bharati case (1973) regarding the Preamble?
67. What did the Supreme Court hold in the LIC of India case (1995) regarding the Preamble?
68. Why was the Preamble inserted at the end by the Constituent Assembly?
69. What are the two things to be noted about the Preamble?
70. When did the question of amendability of the Preamble arise for the first time?
73. What did the Court observe regarding the basic elements of the Constitution?
74. How many times has the Preamble been amended so far, and by which Act?
75. What three new words were added to the Preamble by the 42nd Constitutional Amendment Act?
76. When was the Objectives Resolution moved by Nehru and adopted by the Constituent Assembly?
77. What was India’s political status from August 15, 1947 to January 26, 1950?
78. When did India cease to be a British dominion?
79. When did Pakistan continue to be a British Dominion until?
81. When did India become a member of the UNO?
83. What did Prime Minister Indira Gandhi say about India’s brand of socialism?
84. What case is G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology vs. State of Uttar Pradesh?
85. What case is Nakara vs. Union of India?
87. What did H.R. Gokhale define the concept of secularism as?
88. What did P.B. Gajendragadkar define secularism as in the Indian Constitution?
89. From what two Greek words is the term ‘democracy’ derived?
95. What did Sir Ernest Barker say the Preamble of the Indian Constitution states?
96. What did M Hidayatullah write about in Democracy in India and the Judicial Process?
97. What case is Reference by the President of India (1960)?
98. What case is LIC of India vs. Consumer Education and Research Centre?