Q.What if independence came in 1937, or we waited till 1957? Would our Constitution differ?
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →Because the Constitution's core values came from decades of nationalist-movement debate rather than being invented fresh by the Assembly, the specific year independence arrived would likely have affected some details more than the Constitution's fundamental commitments.
The chapter's account of the "inheritance of the nationalist movement" argues that the Constituent Assembly was not inventing its principles from scratch — it was giving institutional shape to positions the nationalist movement had already debated and largely settled over decades, crystallised in Nehru's 1946 Objectives Resolution. This matters directly for judging what a Constitution written at a different date might have looked like.
If independence, and constitution-making, had come as early as 1937, the underlying nationalist-movement consensus the chapter credits with shaping the Constitution's content would have had less time to develop and settle — meaning a 1937 Constitution would plausibly have been less complete or less firmly agreed upon, and in any case it would have had to be made under continuing British rule rather than after a full transfer of power, changing the entire context of its promulgation. …
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