Indian constitution Parts and Articles

  Parts of the Indian Constitution What are the parts of the Indian Constitution?

Original Indian Constitution had 22 parts and 395 articles. Later 3 parts were added to it as amendments making the tally 25.

An overview of Indian Constitution Parts and Articles is provided in this short post.

Parts of Indian Constitution

The parts of the Indian Constitution along with Subject and Articles .

Part    Subject    Articles

Part I    The Union and its territory    Art. 1 to 4

Part II    Citizenship   Art. 5 to 11

Part III    Fundamental Rights   Art. 12 to 35

Part IV    Directive Principles    Art. 36 to 51

Part IVA    Fundamental Duties    Art. 51A

Part V    The Union    Art. 52 to 151

Part VI    The States   Art. 152 to 237

Part VII    Repealed by Const. (7th Amendment) Act, 1956

Part VIII    The Union Territories    Art. 239 to 242

Part IX    The Panchayats    Art. 243 to 243O

Part IXA    The Municipalities    Art. 243P to 243ZG

Part IXB    Co-operative Societies    Art. 243H to 243ZT

Part X    The Scheduled and Tribal Areas  Art. 244 to 244A

Part XI    Relations between the Union and the States    Art. 245 to 263

Part XII    Finance, Property, Contracts and Suits    Art. 264 to 300A

Part XIII    Trade, Commerce and Intercourse within the Territory of India    Art. 301 to 307

Part XIV    Services under the Union and the States    Art. 308 to 323

Part XIVA    Tribunals    Art. 323A to 323B

Part XV    Elections    Art. 324 to 329A

Part XVI    Special provisions relation to certain classes    Art. 330 to 342

Part XVII    Official Language    Art. 343 to 351

Part XVIII    Emergency Provisions    Art. 352 to 360

Part XIX    Miscellaneous    Art. 361 to 367

Part XX    Amendment of the Constitution    Art. 368

Part XXI    Temporary, Transitional and Special Provisions    Art. 369 to 392

Part XXII    Short title, commencement, authoritative text in Hindi and repeals    Art. 393 to 395

Parts of the Indian Constitution added as amendments

Three parts – 9A Municipalities, 9B Co-operative societies and 14A tribunals – are added to the original constitution via amendments.

Various articles were also added under these 25 parts of Indian constitution as amendments. At present, the total article count is around 450.

Schedules of Indian Constitution

Original Indian Constitution had 8 schedules. After various amendments, now the Indian Constitution has 12 schedules.