: Centre vs states: Exploring the historical roots of India’s distinctive form of federalism #IndiaNEWS India’s post-colonial Constitution introduced a new approach to federalism which was qualified

Centre vs states: Exploring the historical roots of India’s distinctive form of federalism #IndiaNEWS
India’s post-colonial Constitution introduced a new approach to federalism which was qualified at the time – and has been since – as a diminished or “quasi??? form of federalism. India’s federalism was qualified, so the argument went, because it moved away from the idea that federal and regional governments should each have independence in their own sphere of authority, and because it gave the central government strong prerogatives to interfere in the affairs of states.After a phase of political regionalisation between 1989-2014, in which India seemed to be on an inexorable trajectory of deepening federalism, the election of the Narendra Modi-led BJP government – with an outright parliamentary majority at the Centre – has returned the centralising potential of India’s Constitution into fuller view once more.Here, I explore the historical antecedents of India’s distinctive form of federalism. As Madhav Khosla recently argued, India embarked on a remarkable path of Constitutional innovation alongside democratisation in the mid-20th century, the significance of which was “paradigmatic??? for the 20th century. The significance of the Indian model of federalism designed in this period was no less paradigmatic. By returning to the historical antecedents, it is possible to see that Indian federalism was not a diminished form of an earlier form...Read more

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