I may here trace the history of the shaping of the Preamble because this would show that the Preamble was in conformity with the Constitution as it was finally accepted. Not only was the Constitution framed in the light of the Preamble but the Preamble was ultimately settled in the light of the Constitution. In the earliest draft the Preamble was something formal and read: "We, the people of India, seeking to promote the common good, do hereby, through our chosen representatives, enact, adopt and give to ourselves this Constitution." After the plan of June 3, 1947, which led to the decision to partition the country and to set up two independent Dominions of India and Pakistan, on June 8, 1947, a joint sub-committee of the Union Constitution and Provincial Constitution Committees, took note that the objective resolution would require amendment in view of the latest announcement of the British Government. The announcement of June 3 had made it clear that full independence, in the form of Dominion Status, would be conferred on India as from August 15, 1947. After examining the implications of partition the sub-committee thought that the question of making changes in the Objectives Resolution could appropriately be considered only when effect had actually been given to the June 3 Plan. Later on July 12, 1947, the special sub-committee again postponed consideration of the matter. The Union Constitution Committee provisionally accepted the Preamble as drafted by B.N. Rao and reproduced it in its report of July 4, 1947 without any change, with the tacit recognition at that stage that the Preamble would be finally based on the Objectives Resolution. In a statement circulated to members of the Assembly on July 18, 1947 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru inter alia, observed that the Preamble was covered more or less by the Objectives Resolution which it was intended to incorporate in the final Constitution, subject to some modification on account of the political changes resulting from partition. (327 words) [Extracted with edits and revision from B Shiva Rao's - Framing of India's Constitution]
The passage opens with its own thesis about this exact relationship, so the fastest way to answer is to check which option restates that thesis correctly.
The passage's own framing sentence decides this one directly, and only option (C) matches it.
Instead of checking each option's wording against the passage, it helps to trace the timeline itself and see which description of the relationship it produces.
Tracing events this way lands on the same relationship as reading the passage's opening line directly.
So the correct answer is (C) Both the Constitution and the Preamble were shaped in light of each other.
The passage gives the exact wording of the earliest draft, so this becomes a matching exercise between that quote and the four options.
Matching the quote to the options leaves only the enactment description standing, so option (C) is correct.
Another way into this question is to sort the four options by when each phrase actually entered the Preamble's history, then check which one belongs to the earliest stage described in the passage.
Sorting by chronology rather than by content still points to the same one option, since it is the only phrase the passage actually attaches to the earliest draft.
So the correct answer is (C) Formal enactment by the people through representatives.
Here the fastest check is to recall the Preamble's four promises, justice, liberty, equality, fraternity, along with the qualifying words attached to each one.
Since three qualifiers check out exactly and one does not, the one that fails the check is the answer, option (C).
A reliable way to answer this kind of question is to recite the Preamble's justice, liberty, equality, fraternity line as one continuous sentence in your head, then see where each option breaks from it.
Reciting the full sentence and comparing option by option isolates the exact same mismatch as any other method.
So the correct answer is (C) Justice, moral, ethical and legal.
The four descriptive words in the Preamble follow one memorised order, sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic, and this question is really just testing that order.
Checking word position by word position, only the first option lines up completely, making option (A) correct.
Rather than compare the four options to each other, it helps to rebuild the phrase from what each word actually means and see which arrangement follows naturally.
Reconstructing the phrase from its meaning rather than memory still produces the same one correct sequence.
So the correct answer is (A) Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic.
The word finally in the question matters here, since several documents appear in the passage but only one is described as the end point.
Filtering for the option the passage calls the final basis leaves just one, option (A).
A different way to settle this is to ask which document kept coming back unchanged through every committee discussion the passage describes, since that is the one that ended up as the real foundation.
Tracking persistence through the whole timeline points to the same single document as the passage's own explicit statement.
So the correct answer is (A) The Objectives Resolution.
This is a factual identification question, so it helps to separate the four named or implied roles and assign each to the right person.
Assigning each title to its correct holder leaves Constitutional Advisor as Rau's role, so option (B) is correct.
Instead of starting from the four titles, start from the one concrete fact the passage gives about Rau, that he drafted the earliest version of the Preamble, and ask which title that task belongs to.
Working backward from the one task the passage actually assigns to Rau points to the same conclusion as matching titles to known historical figures.
So the correct answer is (B) Constitutional Advisor to the Constituent Assembly.