Question

Secretary of State, criticised
that Indians were incapable of
drafting a constitution​

Answer 1

The Indian Constitution did not stem from a revolution but envisioned one. So why didn’t it happen?

Did anxiety about democratic processes leading to unforeseen use of political power deny the masses true authorial identity to a transformative script?

Sandipto Dasgupta

Apr 09, 2019 · 05:30 pm

A Constituent Assembly of India meeting in 1950. BR Ambedkar can be seen seated top-right. | Wikimedia Commons

There is a problem that any aspiring scholar of the Indian Constitution must face, but which remains, more often than not, unacknowledged. In the voluminous literature narrating the triumph of the Indian people against the mighty British Empire there exists a curious absence: the word “revolution”.

One frequently comes across the phrases “independence movement” or “freedom struggle”. Yet “revolution” – a term oft-used in the modern political vocabulary to describe an epochal shift in the life of a polity – is conspicuous by its absence from the historical consciousness of Indians when they talk about the end of two centuries of colonial domination and the birth of the world’s largest democracy. Whatever terms the new postcolonial political actors chose to describe themselves, “revolutionaries” was rarely one of them. Perhaps the most paradigmatic case of twentieth century decolonisation left behind no “memory” or “spirit” of the revolution.

Answer 2

Complete question

Secretary of State, criticised that Indians were incapable of drafting a constitution.

(a) Morley

(b) Minto

(c) Berkenhead

(d) Montague

Answer:

(c) Birkenhead

• Indian Foreign Minister Birkenhead criticized Indian leaders for failing to draft a unanimously approved constitution for India.
• Birkenhead (/bɜːrkenˈhɛd/) is a ferry port in the Wirrall metropolitan area of Merseyside, England.
• Historic from Cheshire until 1974. It is on the Wirral Peninsula, on the south bank of the River Mersey opposite Liverpool.
• At the 2011 census, the population was 88,818.
• India, also known as Bharat, is a Union of States.
• It's a Sovereign Socialist temporal Democratic Republic with a administrative system of government.
• The Republic is governed in terms of the Constitution of India which was espoused by the Constituent Assembly on 26th November, 1949 and came into force on 26th January, 1950.
• The Constitution provides for a Administrative form of government which is civil in structure with certain unitary features.

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