Constituent Assembly debates show ‘India’ signified familiarity, ‘Bharat’ an ancient culture
The Hindu
The Article currently reads ‘India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States’.
Constituent Assembly debates show that both ‘India’ and ‘Bharat’ were retained in the Constitution to align contrasting thoughts voiced by the makers in 1948.
The to-and-fro in the Constituent Assembly happened while discussing the draft Article 1(1) of the Constitution, which had simply read “India shall be a Union of States”.
For some Members of the Constituent Assembly, the name ‘India’ retained a sense of continuity and familiarity, especially among foreign nations.
“India has been known as India throughout history and throughout all these past years,” B.R. Ambedkar said.
He was opposing an amendment to Article 1(1) that India should be known as the ‘Union of India’.
He reasoned that the name of the country was ‘India’ as a member of the UNO. All agreements had been signed under the name.
But there were others who believed that giving the country an ancient name would not queer the march forward.
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