Page 5 - A brief note on calligraphy of the Constitution of India in English and Hindi

4. For the calligraphy work Shri Prem Behari
Narain Raizada of Rampur was selected and the work
was started on Handmade Millbourne Loan -Paper
16!"x20£", 36 lbs., Imp., 500 sheets of which were
supplied by the Controller of Printing and Stationery,
India.
5. As regards the'illumination work Shri Nandalal
Bose concurred with the Prime Minister's suggestions
.to avoid multi-colour illumination and to have real
gold spray on the margins and beautiful border
illumination in rectangular form all round the space
of 8" x 13" in the middle of the paper for calligraphy.
It was also decided that at the end of each of the 22
Parts of the Constitution a new page will be used
for calligraphy and \ space on first page of each Part
was to be left for historical designs and sketches.
, 6. The services of the calligraphist were placed at
the disposal of the Constituent Assembly Office by
his employers, Messrs. Govan Brothers Ltd., Rampur
with effect from the 28th November, 1949 and the
work was completed in the last week of April, 1950.

7. As the work could not be completed by the 26th
January 1950, the date on which the Constituent
Assembly ceased to function, it was transferred to
Parliament Secretariat to be completed under the
direction of the Honourable the Speaker. According­
ly the Parliament Secretariat took over the residual
work with effect from that date.

8. On the 26th January, 1950 when this Secretariat
took the work over from the Constituent Assembly
Office, 99 pages had been calligraphed in English and
only 15 border illuminated pages received from
Santiniketan. 70 of^ these pages were with Shri
Nandalal Bose in Santiniketan.

9. The position on 31st May, 1950 is that the entire
Constitution in English has been calligraphed and