10 th politics how is fedaralism practised in india
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Constitutional provision are necessary for the success of federalism, but these are not sufficient. The real success of federalism in India can be attributed to the name of democratic politics in our country. To follow the true spirit of federalism, respect for diversity and desire for living together should become a shared ideal in our country.
→ Linguistic States -:
The creation of linguistics states was the first and the major test for democratic politics in our country. After independence (1947), the boundaries of several old states were changed in order to create new states. This was done to ensure that the people who spoke the same language lived in the same state.
→ Language Policy -:
A second test for the Indian federalism is the language policy. The Indian constitution did not give the status of national language to any of the languages. Though Hindi was identified as the official language,which is mother tongue of only 40 per cent of Indians.
→ Centre-State Relation -:
Restructuring the Centre-State relations is one more way in which federalism has been strengthened in practice. Though Indian constitution has demarcated the powers of the Union and State Government, still the Union Government can have influence over the state in many ways.
In the past, Central Government many times misused the Constitution to dismiss the State Government that were ruled by rival parties. This undermined the spirit of federalism.