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What India borrowed — and from whom

The Constituent Assembly studied the constitutions of some sixty countries before writing India's. That is not a confession of copying — it is the opposite: a considered synthesis, borrowing the world's best-tested machinery and adapting it to Indian conditions. Pick a source and see, component by component, what India took from it and exactly where it lives in our Constitution.

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The Constitution of India

Borrowing tested machinery is not being copied — it is the opposite of imposition: a self-authored document choosing the best of what existed. The largest single source is India's own colonial-era Government of India Act, 1935. Data is editable in src/data/constitutions.json. See also why the Constitution rejected every theocracy.