The ideas of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity of the Indian Constitution are…

The Preamble to the Indian Constitution is not an original invention. While drafting India's foundational text, the Constituent Assembly consciously borrowed the language and spirit of several revolutionary and constitutional ideas from around the world. The triad "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" is one of history's most recognisable revolutionary slogans, so its appearance in a constitution points to a specific external source rather than an independent Indian coinage.

The words "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" were the rallying cry of the French Revolution (1789) and were later adopted as the national motto of France. When the framers of the Indian Constitution wrote the Preamble, they consciously borrowed this exact triad from the French Revolution to express India's own commitment to individual freedom, social equality, and fraternal unity among its citizens.

Checking the other events confirms none of them is the source of this specific triad:

• American Revolution (1775-83) — centred on independence from colonial rule and individual liberty, but it did not produce this three-part slogan.

• Russian Revolution (1917) — centred on ending czarist rule and establishing a socialist order built on class struggle, not this democratic triad.

• Magna Carta (1215) — significant for limiting the English monarch's power and establishing the rule of law, but it predates and does not contain this triad.

Hence, the ideas of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity in the Indian Constitution are borrowed from the French Revolution.