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Prem Bihari Narayan Rayzada, a resident of Delhi, the Constitution, of India in italics.
He was born on 16 December 1901 in the family of a renowned handwriting researcher in Delhi. He lost his parents at a young age. He was brought up by his grandfather Ram Prasad Saxena and uncle Chatur Bihari Narayan Saxena. His grandfather Ram Prasad was a calligrapher.
And taught calligraphy to Prem Bihari. After graduating from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, Gradually his fame began to spread for the beautiful handwriting. When the Constitution was ready for printing, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru summoned Prem Bihari. Nehru wanted the Constitution to be handwritten in calligraphy in italic letters instead of in print. He asked Prem Bihari how much would he charge?
Prem Bihari told Nehruji “Not a single penny. By the grace of God I have all the things and I am quite happy with my life”. He made a request to Nehruji "that on every page of Constitution I will write my name and on the last page I will write my name along with my grandfather's name." Nehruji accepted his request.
Prem Bihari Narayan came to Santiniketan on 29 November 1949 along with the President of India, Shri Rajendra Prasad, at the behest of Nehruji and discussed with famous painter Nandalal Basu on decorating the pages.
Nandalal Bose and some of his students from Santiniketan filled these gaps with impeccable imagery. Mohenjo-daro seals, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Life of Gautam Buddha, Emperor Ashoka, Vikramaditya, Akbar, Lakshmibai, Gandhiji's Movement, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, etc.
Prem Bihari needed 432 pen holders to write the Indian constitution and he used 303 nibs. The nibs were brought from England and Czechoslovakia. He wrote the manuscript of the entire Constitution in six months. 251 pages of parchment paper were to used to write the Constitution which weighs 3.650 KG. The Constitution is 22 inches long and 16 inches wide.
Prem Bihari died in 1986. The original Constitution is now preserved in the Parliament House, Delhi. Later, a few books were published in print under the supervision of the Surveyor General of India in Dehradun.