Question

How is federalism practised in India explain with the help of following hints linguistic states,language policy,centre states relations, decentralization and some other in 5 appropriate points(in context of class ncert political science)​

Answer 1

Linguistic states:

¶The boundaries of many Indian states were changed after the Independence so as to accommodate people speaking the same language in one state.

¶ Some divisions were not made on the basis of state but to realise geographical diversity.

¶When the demand for linguistic States was proposed, many national leaders that that this would break the integrity of the country.

¶The Central government even resisted.
¶But the results have shown that this is made the country more united and has made administration is easier.

Language:

¶Hindi is the official language of the country.

¶Besides Hindi, there are 21 (I'm not quite sure about the figure, would you mind checking by yourself?) other scheduled languages.

¶Though it is the duty of the central government to promote Hindi, but it does not mean that the central government can impose Hindi on non Hindi speaking States.

¶t has also agreed to use English along with Hindi in non Hindi States.

Centre State relations:

¶Before 1992, most of the states were controlled by one party.

¶This did not allow state governments to work as autonomous units.

¶The Central government would often misuse the constitution to remove the state government.

¶This era saw rise in number of state parties.

¶Thus, a major judgement from the supreme Court supported the local govt.s