CENTRE STATE RELATIONS IN INDIA : AN ASSESSMENT FROM INDIRA TO MODI

Adoption of Federal structure in India was conceived as necessity to meet out arising out the plurality of Indian situation. Elements of heterogeneity and plurality could be managed through bringing about reconciliation between National identity and those of constituent units. Federation was an answer to that. In Political context balancing the relationship of Centre and States become evidently important, particularly after 1975, at that time Emergency was imposed in the country. The very dynamism of the system with all its checks and balances bring in its wake problems and conflict in the working of Union States Relations.