nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/988e81e6735e5796 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260512s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/988e81e6735e5796 doi eng 342 23 Pillai, Sarath Author aut (orcid)0000-0003-0452-0575 Federalism Against Democracy - The Historical Origins of India’s Federal Compact Pillai, Sarath Verfassungsblog 2026-05-12 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier India, as the world’s largest democracy, is facing a unique challenge in the twenty-first century in managing the relationship between democracy and federalism. How do we historically approach this face-off between the imperatives of democracy and federalism in India today? I suggest that the constitutional and political debates in late colonial India on questions of democracy and federalism show a similar face-off, which fundamentally defined postcolonial India’s shaky tryst with federalism. CC BY-SA 4.0 BJP Indian Constitution Indien colonialism democracy federalism (DE-588)4026722-2 gnd Indien Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/federalism-against-democracy/ raw object