Indian Constitution

The present constitution of India was framed by the Constitution Assembly of India setup under Cabinet Mission plan of 16 May 1946.
Composition of Constituent Assembly:

• The Constituent Assembly consisted of 385 members, of which 292 were elected by he elected members of the Provincial Legislative Assemblies while 93 members were nominated by the Princely States. To these were the to be added a representative each from the four Chief Commissioners Provinces of Delhi, Ajmer-Marwar, Coorg and British Baluchistan.
• Each Province and each Indian State or group of states were allotted the total number of seas proportional to their respective population roughly in the ration of one to a million. 
• B N Rao was appointed the Consitutional Assemly. 
• The first meeting of the Consituent Assembly took place of 9 Dec 1946 with Dr. Sachinanad Sinha as its interim President. Dr. Rajendra Prasad was elected as its President in 11 Dec 1947.
• The Assembly framing the Constitution had 13 committees.
• The all-important Drafting Committee, which bore the responsibility of drafting the Constitutional documents during the recess of the Constituent Assembly from, July 1947 to September 1948, was formed on 29 August 1947.
• It was finally passed and accepted on 26 Nov 1949. The session of the assembly was held on 24 Jan 1950, which unanimously elected Dr. Rajendra Prasad as the President of India. In all the 284 members of the Assemlby signed the official copies of the Indian Constitution which came into effect on 26 Jan 1950 known and celebrated as the Republic Day of India.

Members of Consituent Assembly:

• Dr. B.R. Ambedkar 
• N. Gopalswami Ayyar 
• K.M. Munshi 
• Syyed Mohd. Saadulla 
• N. Mahadev Rao 
• D.P. Khaitan (T. Krishnamachari, after Khaitan's death in 1948)