S.N. Mukherjee
Topic: Framing the Indian Constitution · NCERT: Class 12, Ch 4 "Framing the Constitution"
Meaning
S.N. Mukherjee was the Chief Draughtsman of the Constituent Assembly. A draughtsman is an expert who writes laws in exact legal wording. He was a civil servant, not an elected member. His job was to take complicated proposals and write them in clear legal language while the Draft Constitution was being prepared and revised (1947-49).
Example
In his final speech to the Assembly in November 1949, B.R. Ambedkar praised S.N. Mukherjee by name. He said Mukherjee could put the most complicated proposals into the simplest and clearest legal form.
Don't confuse with
- B.N. Rau: the other key civil servant. He was the Constitutional Advisor and prepared background papers on how other countries were governed. Mukherjee was the drafter of the wording.
Related concepts
- Rajendra Prasad
- B.R. Ambedkar
- Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly
- K.M. Munshi
- Alladi Krishnaswamy Aiyar
- B.N. Rau
- Women in the Constituent Assembly
- Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
- Vijayalakshmi Pandit
- Sucheta Kripalani