Constitutional Affairs Secretariat

In 1345 F/ 1935 on the unanimous recommendation of the Executive Council. The Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan, sanctioned the creation of a new Secretariat for “Constitutional Affairs”.

In constitutional matters, the immediate function of the Secretariat was to deal with all important questions of the instrument of Accession, to watch the trend of legislation in British India having a federal bearing, to effect co-ordination with the State departments, in general and the Committee of Ministers in particulars, to give correct information whenever desirable on constitutional matters, and in general, to perform all the other duties which formerly fell within the purview of the External Relations Committee. The information Bureau was also placed under the new Secretariat. The records of the Constitutional Affairs Secretariat are in English and Urdu, the English files are in the majority. The records of this Secretariat were shifted to the Central Record Office (now State Archives) in November 1949.

The detailed information of the records of constitutional Affairs Secretariat are given below:

S.No	Nature of the Document	Periodicity	No.of Records
1	Total number of files (including Urdu and English files)	1928-1950 A.D.	3,332
(a)	English file	-	594
(b)	Urdu file	-	2,738