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Does the functioning of the federalism in India tend to make it appear as a unitary state in practice?

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  • Federalism

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K. C. Wheare called the Indian Constitution "quasi-federal": in his view it was a unitary state with subsidiary federal features. B. R. Ambedkar had already told the Constituent Assembly (4 November 1948) that it could be "both unitary as well as federal according to the requirements of time and circumstances". In certain periods the working…

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  • A design that allows a unitary switch
  • Functioning that sharpens the unitary look
  • Why the appearance misleads
  • Conclusion
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