NCERT Solutions Exploring Society: India and Beyond Chapter 10 Members of the Constituent Assembly from your own region — LET'S EXPLORE

Book page 215 Updated on2026-09-05

Q1.
In small groups, try to find out the names of people from your region who may have participated in the making of the Constitution.
Answer

How to do it: the Constituent Assembly's 299 members were elected by the provincial legislative assemblies, so every province and princely state region sent members. Start from your present State, and remember that in 1946 the province may have had a different name and boundary — Bombay Presidency, Madras Presidency, the Central Provinces, Bihar, the United Provinces, Assam, Punjab, and so on.

What a good answer must contain:

  • the names of two or three members connected with your region;
  • the constituency or province each represented;
  • one sentence on what each contributed — a committee they served on, a debate they spoke in, or work they did in the freedom movement;
  • the source you got each fact from.

Sample answer: “Our school is in Bihar. From the Bihar province, Dr. Rajendra Prasad was a member — he was elected Chairman of the Constituent Assembly, and later became India's first President. Shri Krishna Sinha and Anugrah Narayan Sinha, both leaders of the freedom movement in Bihar, were also members. We found this in a book in our school library and confirmed the names on the Constituent Assembly pages of the Sansad website.”

Tip: present your findings as a small table — Name · Province represented · One contribution · Source. It makes the class comparison much easier, and it teaches you to keep track of where each fact came from.
Q2.
What sources can you use to gather this information? (Hint: Look for books in your school or local library. You could also ask your teacher, parents and other elders in the neighbourhood. Explore about/constituent-assembly )
Answer

Use several kinds of source and cross-check them against one another.

Kind of sourceExamplesWhat it is good for
BooksSchool and local library books on the freedom movement and on the making of the Constitution; district gazetteersReliable dates, full names, background
Official recordsThe Constituent Assembly pages of the Parliament (Sansad) website, which carry the members' lists and the full debatesThe most authoritative list of members
PeopleYour teacher, parents, grandparents, elders in the neighbourhood, a local historian or librarianLocal memory, leads you will not find in books
PlacesStatues, memorial plaques, road names, museums, the local archiveConfirming that a person really belonged to your region
Newspaper archivesOld issues kept in the district libraryWhat people at the time said about the member
Why cross-check: oral memory is precious but can slip on dates and spellings, while a written list can miss a person's local connection. Using both, and noting your source next to every fact, is exactly how a historian works — the same method you used with primary and secondary sources earlier in this book.
Was this helpful? Report an error