Federalism means a well-defined sharing of power between the center and state-level government. Indian federalism has some unique features such as:
- The central government has more additional power than the state government
- Indian federalism can be converted into a unitary form of government during emergency times.
India choose federalism not unitary forms of government, because of the following geographical factors;
- Very large geographical areas;
- Federalism is needed to govern effectively.
- Areas; 32.6 lakh square km,
- and 1.21 billion population in 2011.
- Linguistic diversity;
- Cultural and ethnic diversity
- Religious diversity
- Topographical and geographical diversity; Desert, Plains, Hills, mountains, Plateau, Coastal, Islands, etc.
For these geographical reasons, federalist forms of government were chosen.
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