WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA┬аhaving solemnly resolved to constitute India into a┬аSOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC┬аand to secure to all its citizens:
JUSTICE, social, economic and political;
LIBERTY┬аof thought, expression, belief, faith and worship;
EQUALITY┬аof status and of opportunity; and to promote among them all
FRATERNITY┬аassuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the Nation;
IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949, do┬аHEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION