Constitution of India was written by hand.....
No mechanical instrument was used to write the whole constitution. Prem Bihari Narayan Rayzada, a resident of Delhi, wrote this huge book, the entire Constitution, in italics.
Prem Bihari was a famous calligraphy writer of that time. He was born on 16 December 1901 in the family of a renowned handwriting researcher in Delhi. He lost his parents at a young age. He was brought up by his grandfather Ram Prasad Saxena and uncle Chatur Bihari Narayan Saxena. His grandfather Ram Prasad was a calligrapher. He was a scholar of Persian and English. He taught Persian to high-ranking officials of the English government.
Dadu used to teach calligraphy art to Prem Bihari from an early age for beautiful handwriting. After graduating from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, Prem Bihari started practicing calligraphy art learned from his grandfather. Gradually his name and fame began to spread for the beautiful handwriting. When the Constitution was ready for printing, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru summoned Prem Bihari. Nehru wanted the Constitution to be handwritten in calligraphy in italic letters instead of in print.
That is why he called on Prem Bihari and asked him to handwrite the Constitution in italics and asked him the fee he would take.
Prem Bihari told Nehruji “Not a single penny. By the grace of God I have all the things and I am quite happy with my life. ”
After saying the above, he made a request to Nehruji "I have one request- that on every page of Constitution I will write my name and on the last page I will write my name along with my grandfather's name." Nehruji accepted his request. He was given a house to write the Constitution. Sitting there, Premji wrote the manuscript of the entire Constitution.
Before writing, Prem Bihari Narayan came to Santiniketan on 29 November 1949 along with the President of India, Shri Rajendra Prasad, at the behest of Nehruji. They discussed with the famous painter Nandalal Basu on decorating the rest of the blank part of the page.
Nandalal Bose and some of his students from Santiniketan filled these gaps with impeccable imagery. Mohenjo-daro seals, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Life of Gautam Buddha, Promotion of Buddhism by Emperor Ashoka, Meeting of Vikramaditya, Emperor Akbar and Mughal Empire, Lakshmibai, Gandhiji's Movement, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, etc are all reflected.
It is also a pictorial representation of the history and geography of India. They painted the pictures very thoughtfully according to the content and paragraphs of the Constitution.
Prem Bihari needed 432 pen holders to write the Indian constitution and he used 303 nibs. The nibs were brought from England and Czechoslovakia. He wrote the manuscript of the entire Constitution in six months in a room in the Constitution Hall of India. 251 pages of parchment paper were to used to write the Constitution. The weight of the constitution is 3.650 KG. The Constitution is 22 inches long and 16 inches wide.
Prem Bihari died on February 17, 1986. The original book of the Indian Constitution is now preserved in the library of the Parliament House, Delhi. Later, a few books were published in print under the supervision of the Surveyor General of India in Dehradun.
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