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PART IX
THE TERRITORIES IN PART D OF THE FIRST
SCHEDULE AND OTHER TERRITORIES
NOT SPECIFIED IN THAT SCHEDULE
243 Administration of territories specified in PART D
of the First Schedule and other
territories not specified in that Schedule
(1) Any territory specified in Part D of the First
Schedule and any Other territory COm-
prised within the territory of India but
not specified in that Schedule shall be
administered by the President acting, to
such extent as he thinks fit, through a
Chief Commissioner or other authority to be appointed by
him.
(2) The President may make regulations for the peace
and good government of any such territory and any regu-
lations so made may repeal or amend any law made by
Parliament or any existing law which is for the time being
applicable to such territory and, when promulgated by the
President, shall have the same force and effect as an Act
of Parliament which applies to such territory,
PART X
THE SCHEDULED AND TRIBAL AREAS
244. Administration of Scheduled Areas and tribal areas.—(1) The
provisions of the Fifth Schedule shall apply to the administration and control of
the Scheduled Areas and Scheduled Tribes in any State specified in Part A or Part B of the First Schedule other than the States of
Assam.
(2) The provisions of the Sixth Schedule shall apply to the
administration of the tribal areas in the States of Assam.
PART XIII
TRADE, COMMERCE AND INTERCOURSE WITHIN THE
TERRITORY OF INDIA
301. Freedom of trade, commerce and intercourse.—Subject to the
other provisions of this Part, trade, commerce and intercourse throughout the
territory of India shall be free.
302. Power of Parliament to impose restrictions on trade, commerce
and intercourse.—Parliament may by law impose such restrictions on the
freedom of trade, commerce or intercourse between one State and another or
within any part of the territory of India as may be required in the public
interest.
303. Restrictions on the legislative powers of the Union and of the
States with regard to trade and commerce.—(1) Notwithstanding anything
in article 302, neither Parliament nor the Legislature of a State shall have power
to make any law giving, or authorising the giving of, any preference to one
State over another, or making, or authorising the making of, any discrimination
between one State and another, by virtue of any entry relating to trade and
commerce in any of the Lists in the Seventh Schedule.
(2) Nothing in clause (1) shall prevent Parliament from making any law
giving, or authorising the giving of, any preference or making, or authorising
the making of, any discrimination if it is declared by such law that it is
necessary to do so for the purpose of dealing with a situation arising from
scarcity of goods in any part of the territory of India.
304. Restrictions on trade, commerce and intercourse among
States.—Notwithstanding anything in article 301 or article 303, the
Legislature of a State may by law—
(a) impose on goods imported from other States any tax to which similar goods manufactured or produced in
that State are subject, so, however, as not to discriminate between goods
so imported and goods so manufactured or produced; and
(b) impose such reasonable restrictions on the freedom of trade,
commerce or intercourse with or within that State as may be required in
the public interest:
Provided that no Bill or amendment for the purposes of clause (b) shall
be introduced or moved in the Legislature of a State without the previous
sanction of the President.
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THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
305. Effect of articles 301 and 303 on existing laws—
Nothing in articles 301 and 303 shall affect the
provisions of any existing law except in
so far as the President may by order
otherwise provide.
306. Power of certain States in Part B of the First Schedule to impose
restrictions on trade and commerce.-
Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing pro-
visions of this Part or in any other pro-
visions of this Constitution, any State
specified in Part B of the First Schedule
which before the commencement of this
Constitution was levying any tax or duty
on the import of goods into the State from other States
or on the export of goods from the State to other States
may, if an agreement in that behalf has been entered into
between the Government of India and the Government of
that State, continue to levy and collect such tax or duty
subject to the terms of such agreement and for such period
not exceeding ten years from the commencement of this
Constitution as may be specified in the agreement :

Constitution of India Dataset

This dataset contains the full text of the Constitution of India, a legal and foundational document of the Republic of India. The Constitution is the supreme law of India and serves as the guiding framework for the country’s political, legal, and administrative systems.

Dataset Summary

  • Language: English
  • File Format: Plain text (.txt)
  • Size: Approximately 80,000 words (~0.08 million tokens)
  • Content: The dataset contains the full text of the Indian Constitution, organized in its original structure.

Dataset Details

Dataset Structure

  • File Name: constitution-of-india.txt
  • Structure: The dataset is presented as a plain text file with no additional formatting or annotations. It includes:
    • The Preamble of the Constitution.
    • Parts, Articles, and Schedules as per the original document.

Intended Use

This dataset can be used for:

  • Fine-tuning language models for legal or domain-specific text generation.
  • Educational and research purposes related to the Indian Constitution.
  • Analyzing the linguistic style and structure of legal texts.

How to Load the Dataset

To load the dataset directly from the Hugging Face Hub:

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load the dataset
dataset = load_dataset("username/constitution-of-india-dataset", split="train")

# View the first few entries
print(dataset[:5])
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