The Indian constitution was typed and binded into a book.

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MYTH

Explanation: The Indian constitution was hand written by Prem Behari Narain Raizada and later photolithographed by survey of india.

Courts also accept photocopies in place of original documents during plea submission.

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FACT

Explanation: Courts allow submission of photocopies to prevent loss of original documents.

Hindi is the only official language of India.

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MYTH

Explanation: Hindi is only one of the 24 official languages of the country other languages are English, along with Assamese, Bengali, Kannada, Gujarati etc.

The Indian constitution took 5 months to make between August 1947 to January 1947.

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MYTH

Explanation: The constitution took just under 3 years, 2 years, 11 months and 18 days precisely to make.

The urbanization of India’s huge rural population will not lead to any unprecedented increases in living standards.

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Explanation: Urbanization has been a critical ingredient to economic growth for many countries. Simply putting labor next to capital by attracting people into cities tends to raise workers’ productivity and, eventually, their incomes. More than two thirds of India’s population still lives in rural areas. India is not under-urbanized compared to other poor countries; looking at how living standards compare to urbanization among all the world’s countries, India sits right on the best-fit line. There’s no reason to believe that urbanization will help India’s growth more than it has for any other country.

Food is the biggest unmet need of India's poor.

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Explanation: Hunger remains a daily fact of life for the poorest of the poor. But health care, drinking water, and sanitation constitute 40 percent of the population's unmet needs by value. On average, Indians lack access to over half the health care infrastructure and services they need.

First Independence day was celebrated on 26 January 1930.

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MYTH

Explanation: Purna Swaraj Day or India’s Independence Day was first celebrated on January 26, 1930. This was the day the country decided to push for complete freedom from the British.

The constitution of India contains every law that can be imposed in the country.

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MYTH

Explanation: That although the Constitution is made as a book of basic values, principles and rules. It gives the structures and mechanisms for making laws. It does not by itself contain laws. 2)Myth- First Independence day was celebrated on 15th August 1946

A woman can inherit her father's property or claim a part in it according to the 'Hindu Succession Act'.

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Explanation: Until 2005, the laws related to succession among the Hindus were that the men or sons of the family inherited ancestral property, and daughters were taken care of only until they were married. However, in a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court amended the Hindu Succession Act, granting daughters the same rights and liabilities as sons.

Samosa is not an Indian Dish.

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Explanation: Samosa, a food of the common Indian is not at all Indian. It traveled to India with the Mughals in the 14th century through Central Asia where it is called sambusak