TITLE:
Some Observations on Indian Federalism in Comparative Perspective
AUTHORS:
Mauro Mazza
KEYWORDS:
Forms of State, Indian Federalism, Unionist Federalism, Ethnic Regionalism
JOURNAL NAME:
Beijing Law Review,
Vol.6 No.1,
February
17,
2015
ABSTRACT: The article
analyses the form of state of the federal Indian Union, which is rather
atypical in the “landscape” of comparative constitutional law. The trend
towards centralization of functions and powers, both at federal and state
levels, probably constitutes some sort of quasi-federalism, or semi-federalism,
or even unionist federalism. Indian pragmatic federalism, which we can mainly
characterize as a variant of ethnic federalism, may well lead, in terms of the
classification of the forms of state, to consider Indian federalism as unitary
federalism, or as the realization of a sui
generis unionist state.