We the people of the territories of British India distributed into administrative units called Provinces and Centrally Administered Areas and of the territories of the Indian States with a view to form a more perfect union of these territories do– ordain that the Provinces and the Centrally Administered Areas (to be hereafter designated as States) and the Indian States shall be joined together into a Body Politic for Legislative, Executive and Administrative purposes under the style The United States of India and that the union so formed shall be indissoluble and that with a view :
(i) To secure the blessings both of self-government and good government throughout the United States of India to ourselves and to out posterity,
(ii) To maintain the right of every subject to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness and to free speech and free exercise of religion
(iii) To remove social, political and economic inequality by providing better opportunities to the submerged classes,
(iv) To make it possible for every subject to enjoy freedom from want and freedom from fear, and
(v) To provide against internal disorder and external aggression, establish this Constitution for the United States of India.