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Discuss asymmetrical federalism in India.

  • UPSC 2018
  • 15 marks
  • Federalism

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Charles D. Tarlton ("Symmetry and Asymmetry as Elements of Federalism", 1965) argued that federal theory had wrongly assumed uniform units. In practice, social and economic differences make each unit relate differently to the whole. India, a "holding-together" federation in Alfred Stepan's terms, has made this asymmetry its principal method of accommodation.

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  • Two kinds of asymmetry
  • Political asymmetry
  • Constitutional asymmetry
  • Accommodation or inequality?
  • Conclusion
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