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Almost 75 years after Constitution was adopted, what does education mean for nation-building? | C Raj Kumar
The Constitution of India was adopted on November 26, 1949. While the vision and imagination of the framers of the Constitution was far-sighted, the reality of India at that moment was very different. At Independence, India’s population was around 370 million, and women, on average, had six children. The age structure was very young, and over 80 per cent of the population was illiterate.