Pūrna Swarāj resolution

The Purna Swaraj resolution—proclaimed on January 26, 1930, later to be celebrated as independent India’s Republic Day—called for “complete freedom from the British” but was later interpreted by Prime Minister Nehru as permitting India to remain within the British Commonwealth, a practical concession young Jawaharlal had…

…promulgation, in recognition of the Purna Swaraj (“Complete Self-Governance”) resolution, a call for India’s complete independence, adopted by the Indian National Congress on January 26, 1930. The Constitution, one of the longest and most detailed in the world, established India as a democratic republic and a union of states.