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‘Planning has superseded the federation and our country is functioning almost like a unitary system in many respects.’ In the light of the statement, examine the recent trends in Indian Federalism.

  • UPSC 1991
  • Planning and Economic Development

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The charge is K. Santhanam's, in Union-State Relations in India (1960). He was a Constituent Assembly member who had chaired the Second Finance Commission, and he saw a federation designed in law being run as a hierarchy through money. Sixty-five years on, the planning machinery he blamed is gone, but the centralising pull has moved…

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  • What Santhanam meant
  • Recent trends that weaken the charge
  • Trends that renew it
  • Assessment
  • Conclusion
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