Question

How has federalism succeeded in india? What polocies adopted in india ensuredthe success in india?

Answer 1

1)The creation of linguistic states were the first and a major test for democratic politics in our country-Many old states have vanished and many new states have been created.Areas,boundaries and names of states have been changed.In 1947, the boundaries of several old states have changed in order to create new states.This was done to ensure that people who spoke the same language lived in the same state.Some states were created not on the basis of language but to recognized differences based on culture,ethnicity or geography.These include states like Nagaland,Uttarakhand and Jharkhand.
2)Language policy-A second test for Indian federation is like the language policy.Our constitution did not give the status of national language to any one language.Hindi was identified as the official language.But Hindi is the mother tongue of only about 40 percents of Indians.Therefore,there were many safeguards to protect other languages.Beside Hindi, there are 21 other languages recognized as Schedule Languages Constitution.
3)Center-State relations-restructuring the Center-state relations is one more way in which federalism has been strengthen in practice .Since 1990, COALITION GOVTS were at the center.Since no single party got a clear majority in the Lok Sabha, the major national parties had to enter into an alliance with many parties including several regional parties to form a government at the center.