(University of North Bengal, 2020-03) Chakraborty, Gangotri
This article shows that the concept of “people” in the Preamble of the Constitution of
India is vague and confused and victim of severe politicking. Such “people” cannot be
the “sovereign” that gave themselves the Constitution. The concept of “people” in the
Constitution has an overlap with the “citizenship” that often used interchangeably and
nationalism. In the post-independence era the concept of “people” has become more
elusive and there is a need to take stock of the situation resulting from right wing
majoritarian politics.
