🇮🇳How does India mark Conscripted, registered, or merely obliged on paper?

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India has no conscription; its armed forces are entirely volunteer. Yet the duty to defend is written into the constitution. Among the Fundamental Duties listed in Article 51A, clause (d) reads: it shall be the duty of every citizen of India to defend the country and render national service when called upon to do so. The words “when called upon” are the hinge: the duty is conditional, and the condition has never been triggered. Unlike the Directive Principles, which Article 37 says no court may enforce, the Fundamental Duties are a whole Part added in 1976, and they too arrive without an accompanying sanction. India therefore represents a third form among these seven markets: neither turning service into an institution, as Taiwan and China do, nor declining to maintain forces at all, as Japan does, but stating the duty plainly and leaving blank the condition that would activate it. Recruitment is consequently part of the labour market rather than a stage of citizenship.