Welcome friends. Today’s post will assist you in understanding the basic concepts of FEDERALISM in Indian Polity. It will help you to attempt questions asked in various exams like UPSC, State PCS, SSC, Railways, IBPS etc. FEDERALISM Political scientists have classified government into unitary and federal on the basis of the nature of relations between the national government and the regional government. A federal government is one in which powers are divided between the national government and the regional governments by the jurisdiction independently. In a federal model, the national government is known as the Federal Government or the Central Government or the Union Government. • • The distribution of powers is an essential feature of federalism. A federal Constitution establishes the dual polity with the Union at the centre and the States at the periphery, each endowed with the sovereign powers to be exercised in the field assigned to them respectively by the Consti...