The Parts and Articles of the Indian Constitution

Originally (1949), the Indian Constitution contained a Preamble, 22 Parts, 395 Articles and 8 Schedules. Presently, there are 25 Parts, more than 450 Articles, 12 Schedules and a Preamble. Originally 14 Languages recognized by the Constitution under 8th Schedule but presently there are 22 Languages.

The Parts and Articles of Indian Constitution

Parts	Subject Matter	Articles covered
I	The Union and its Territory	1-4
II	Citizenship	5-11
III	Fundamental Rights	12-35
IV	Directive Principles of State Policy	36-51
IV-A	Fundamental Duties	51A
V	The Union Government Chapter-I: The Executive (52-78)Chapter-II: Parliament (79-122)Chapter-III: Legislative Powers of President (123)Chapter-IV: The Union Judiciary (124-147)Chapter-V: Comptroller and Auditor-General of India (148-151)	52 to 151
VI	The State Governments Chapter-I: General (152)Chapter-II: The Executive (153-167)Chapter-III: The State Legislature (168-212)Chapter-IV: Legislative Powers of Governor (213)Chapter-V: The High Courts (214-232)Chapter-VI: The Subordinate courts (233-237)	152 to 237
VII	The States in Part-B of the first Schedule (deleted by 7^th amendment act, 1956)	238
VIII	The Union Territories	239-242
IX	The Panchayats	243 to 234-O
IX-A	The Municipalities	243-P to 243-ZG
IX-B	The Co-operative Societies	243-ZH to 243-ZT
X	The Scheduled and Tribal Areas	244 to 244-A
XI	Relations between the Union and the States Chapter-I: Legislative Relations (245-255)Chapter-II: Administrative Relations (256-263)	245-263
XII	Finance, Property, Contracts and Suits Chapter-I: Finance (264-291)Chapter-II: Borrowing (292-293)Chapter-III: Property, Contracts, Rights, Liabilities, Obligations and Suits (294-300)Chapter-IV: Right to Property (300-A)	264 to 300-A
XIII	Trade, Commerce and Intercourse within the Territory of India	301-307
XIV	Services under the Union and the States Chapter-I: Services (308-314)Chapter-II: Public Service Commissions (315-323)	308-323
XIV-A	Tribunals	323-A to 323-B
XV	Elections	324 to 329-A
XVI	Special Provisions relating to Certain Classes	330-342
XVII	Official Languages Chapter-I: Language of the Union (343-344)Chapter-II: Regional Languages (345-347)Chapter-III: Language of the Supreme Court, High Courts and so on (348-349)Chapter-IV: Special Directives (350-351)	343-351
XVIII	Emergency Provisions	352-360
XIX	Miscellaneous	361-367
XX	Amendment of the Constitution	368
XXI	Temporary, Transitional and Special Provisions	369-392
XXII	Short title, Commencement, Authoritative Text in Hindi and Repeals	393-395

Note – Part-VII, related to Part-B states, has been repealed by 7^th Amendment Act, 1956. The four Parts added to the Indian Constitution are as follow-

Part added	By Amendment	Subject Matter
Part-IVA	42^nd Amendment Act, 1976	Fundamental Duties (Art. 51A)
Part-IXA	74^thAmendment Act, 1992	Municipalities (Art. 243-P to 243-ZG)
Part-IXB	97^th Amendment Act, 2011	Co-operative Societies (Art. 243-ZH to 243-ZT)
Part-XIVA	42^nd Amendment Act, 1976	Tribunals (Art. 323-A to 323-B)