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By Express News ServiceLuminaries from Karnataka made significant contributions to the statute book we are all expected to honour and follow today. There were 389 members in the Constituent Assembly that came into being in 1946 and 93 of them were from princely states. There were also people who represented the Constituent Assembly from Bombay Karnataka, Coorg, part of Madras which were later merged to form Karnataka. There was resistance from several princely states to join the Indian union. K R Ramesh KumarFormer speaker,Karnataka Legislative AssemblyJust imagine the strain on Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel and others to make India..