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title: "Why Was India’s Constituent Assembly Indirectly Elected?"  
description: "Why Was India’s Constituent Assembly Indirectly Elected?"  
author: "Björn Sigurðsson"  
published: 2026-10-16  
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# Why Was India’s Constituent Assembly Indirectly Elected?

India’s Constituent Assembly drafted the Constitution, but its members were not chosen through a direct vote by all adult citizens. What political and practical considerations shaped that arrangement in the years just before independence?

I’m also wondering how the Assembly’s composition changed during Partition, and whether those changes affected how representative it was of the country it was writing a constitution for.


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