Urban government bodies have been created for towns and large cities. Towns and small cities have municipalities. Large cities are constituted into municipal corporations. Both municipalities and...

Our Constitution did not give the status of national language to any one language.Hindi was identified as an official language, but it is the mother tongue of only about 40 percent of...

India is a vast country. Some states in India are as large as independent countries of Europe.Uttar Pradesh is bigger than Russia and Maharashtra is about as big as Germany.Many states are...

Coalition government is a government formed by the coming together of at least two political parties. Usually, partners in a coalition form a political alliance and adopt a common programme.After...

In 1815, representatives of the European powers- Britain, Russia, Prussia, and Austria, who had collectively defeated Napoleon at the battle of Waterloo, met at Vienna to draw up a settlement for...

Linguistic statesThe creation of linguistic states was the first and major test for democratic politics in our country.Many old states had vanished and many new states had been created.Areas,...

Our constitution has declared India, a Union of States. The Indian Union is based on the principles of federalism, as a two tier system initially (at the central and the state level) but later in...