Bulletin n. 3/2014
February 2015
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • A.S. Narang
    Federalism in India: Limitations and Challenges
    in Indian Journal of Federal Studies , n. 26 ,  2012 ,  1-20
    India has historically evolved as distinctive form of cooperative federalism with in-built constitutional mechanism of accommodating diversity as valid element of Indian nationalism. Forms of accommodation structurally depend on nature of party system, and degree of centralisation and decentralisation at a particular point of time. State autonomy may not all the time be minority accommodating or protecting. Union has pre-eminent responsibility towards minorities. Also mere grant of cultural autonomy will not guarantee development, or to preserve a threatened culture. The form which any particular manifestation of autonomy takes must be concisely related to the goals of the community which aspires it, as well as to the requirements of the larger state policy. Relative convergence of territory, group and polity may institutionalise minorities as bonafide partners in the making of India. The present paper historically analyses Indian federalism and its inherent limitations and challenges particularly from the perspective of sociocultural pluralism.
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