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Comment in 150 words: Cooperative Federalism in India.

  • UPSC 2015, 1996
  • 10 marks
  • Federalism

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Cooperative federalism rests on interdependence between the Union and the states, not on their independence. Granville Austin used the term for the Indian design. It is the opposite of American dual federalism, in which each government works within watertight compartments. The cooperative model grew with the welfare state of the 1930s, so India's framers were…

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