NALSAR UNIVERSITY OF LAW
Academic Year: 2024-25 (Even Semester)
Faculty Name:
Constitutional Philosophy
Course
and Practice of Federalism in Participants: LLB: IV/V & LLM
Title:
India
Course
Elective Course Credits 4
Type:
Maximum number of
NA Any Prerequisites : NA
Students
Preferred Dates NA
This is a part-constitutional history and part-constitutional law course
on federalism in India. It introduces students to the ideas that shaped
India’s federalism in its inaugural years; and the ways in which Indian
Course federalism has evolved over the years. Traditional constitutional law
Outline: instruction has focused on Centre-State relations provisions of the
Constitution. For example, much time is spent on Article 246 and 254
and Article 356. This course focuses on the less-discussed aspects of
federalism in the Indian constitution.
Upon completion of the course, students should be able to
CO1
Identify the ideas that underpinned federalism in India
:
CO2 Develop constitutional arguments in relation to federal
Course : governance based on constitutional philosophy and history
Outcomes: CO3
Analyse contemporary challenges in the field of federalism
:
CO4 Compare various federal arrangements within and outside
: India
SECTION B: MODULE DETAILS AND LECTURE PLAN
Module 1 Federalism, generally
Module Upon completion of the module, students should be able to state the
Outcome
historic and philosophical ideas that informed federalism generally
(MO1)
Hour
Topics Reference Material
s
Johannes Althusius, Politics as the Art of Associating,
pp.27-34, Theories of Federalism: A Reader
Some John C. Calhoun, On the Relation which the States and
“Original” General Government Bear to Each Other [The Fort Hill
1 4
theories of Address] pp.135 -147, Theories of Federalism: A
federalism Reader
Harold Laski, The Obsolescence of Federalism, pp.
193-199, Theories of Federalism: A Reader
Thomas O. Hueglin, Federalism: An Alternative
Category in Political Thought?, in Varieties of Federal
Governance: Major Contemporary Models 3 (Rekha
Saxena ed., 2011),
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/varieties-of-
federal-governance/federalism-an-alternative-
category-in-political-thought/
9FC94F7184B3EC44B537981D74AF1E2C
Federalism, Liberalism, and the Separation of
Loyalties https://www.jstor.org/stable/27644460
Federalism and Community in the American Context,
John Kincaid, Publius, Vol. 20, No. 2, Forming the
American Constitution: Liberty and Equality(Spring,
1990), pp. 69-87, Oxford University Press
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3330550
Thereotical
Fleming, T. (1994). The Federal Principle. Telos,
understandi
1 6 1994(100), 17–36. doi:10.3817/0694100017
ng of
Will Kymlicka, Federalism, Nationalism and
federalism
Multiculturalism, pp.269-292, Theories of Federalism:
A Reader
Samuel V. LaSelva, Federalism as a Way of Life:
Reflections on the Canadian Experiment, 26 CANADIAN
JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE / REVUE CANADIENNE DE
SCIENCE POLITIQUE 219 (1993).
Miller, Joshua. “The Ghostly Body Politic: The
Federalist Papers and Popular Sovereignty.” Political
Theory, vol. 16, no. 1, 1988, pp. 99–119. JSTOR,
http://www.jstor.org/stable/191649. Accessed 4 Dec.
2024.
Tierney B. Popular sovereignty, federalism, and
fundamental law: Azo to Althusius. In: Religion, Law
and the Growth of Constitutional Thought, 1150-1650.
The Wiles Lectures. Cambridge University Press;
1982:54-79.
Federalism Kahn, Jeffrey, 'Soviet ‘Federalism’', Federalism,
2 6
in a Democratization, and the Rule of Law in
Russia (Oxford, 2002; online edn, Oxford Academic, 1
Nov.
2003), https://doi.org/10.1093/0199246998.003.0003,
accessed 4 Dec. 2024.
historical/co Aspaturian, Vernon V. “The Theory and Practice of
mparative Soviet Federalism.” The Journal of Politics 12, no. 1
context (1950): 20–51. https://doi.org/10.2307/2126086.
A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution. Ed.,
François Furet and Mona Ozouf, “Federalism,”
Dictionary of French Revolution, pp.54-64
Module 2 Unity and Integrity: Antecedents of Indian Federalism
Module Upon completion of the module, students should be able to grasp the
Outcome key ideas that informed ideas of Indian federalism during the colonial
(MO2) period
Hou
Topics Reference Material
rs
Government of India Act, 1935
Uday S. Mehta, Part I History, Ch.3 Indian
Constitutionalism: Crisis, Unity, and History, Oxford
Constitutions.
The fear of “Indian States,” Report of the 51st Indian National
1 4 Congress, pp.206-208
“balkanizat
ion” https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.237515/page
/n213/mode/2up
SUNIL PURUSHOTHAM, FROM RAJ TO REPUBLIC: SOVEREIGNTY,
VIOLENCE, AND DEMOCRACY IN INDIA (2021). PP. 24-35, 52-66
"Writing, Speaking, Being: Language and the
Historical Formation of Identities in India,” pp. 127-
167
RAMA SUNDARI MANTENA, PROVINCIAL DEMOCRACY: POLITICAL
IMAGINARIES AT THE END OF EMPIRE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY
SOUTH INDIA (2023). pp.1-30
Emergence
of
2 Territorial 4
Chapter 4, Madhumita Sengupta, Becoming
Linguistic
Assamese: Colonialism and New Subjectivities in
Identities
Northeast India (2016).
Chapter 7 “Caste, Identity, and Difference,” Prachi
Deshpande, Creative Pasts: Historical Memory and
Identity in Western India, 1700-1960, 2007.
Introduction, Pritipuspa Mishra, Language and the
Making of Modern India.
Module 3 1947-1950: Making of the Union
Upon completion of the module, students should be able to
Module
understand the political processes that informed the construction
Outcome
of the Union of India, and the means by which political integration
(MO3)
was achieved
Hour
Topics Reference Material
s
1 Emergence 6 Hemchand Devchand v. Azam Sakarlal
of an Indian Chhotamlal, 1905 SCC OnLine PC 31
Union GOVERMENT OF INDIA PRESS DELHI, WHITE PAPER ON
INDIAN STATES (1950),
http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.20747
4
Undesirable Immigrants Act, 1950
The Unification of India, 1947-1951
Holden Furber, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 24, No. 4
(Dec., 1951), pp. 352-371, Pacific Affairs,
University of British Columbia
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2753451
Vallabhai Patel’s speech in Constituent
Assembly, October 12 1949
https://indiankanoon.org/doc/403940/
Part C States (Laws) Act, 1950
Merged States’ Laws Act 1949
STATES IN PART B. THE NEW PARAMOUNTCY
Author(s): M. Venkatarangaiya Source: The
Indian Journal of Political Science , October-
December 1950, Vol. 11, No. 4 (October-
December 1950), pp. 48-54 Published by: Indian
Political Science Association Stable URL:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/42743256
Rao Shiv Bahadur Singh v. State of Vindhya
Pradesh, (1953) 2 SCC 111
State of Bombay v. Salat Pragji Karamsi, 1957
SCC OnLine SC 115
Prem Nath Kaul v. State of Jammu & Kashmir,
(1959) Supp. (2) SCR 270
Ramjilal v. ITO, 1951 SCC 1
State of Madras v. C.G. Menon, (1954) 2 SCC 11
JVP Committee report
Suspicion https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.21083
towards the Dar Commission report
“poison” of https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.21082
2 2
linguistic C. Shrikishen v. State of Hyderabad, 1956 SCC
reorganizatio OnLine Hyd 258
n Virendra v. Punjab State, 1956 SCC OnLine Punj
99
Module
1950-1960: State Reorganisation
4
Upon completion of the module, students should be able to understand
Module
the broad contours of (1) arguments that were pressed in favour
Outcome
of/against linguistic reorganization (2) the legal processes involved in
(MO4)
the reorganization of states
Ho
Topics Reference Material
urs
Janaki Nair, The ‘Composite’ State and Its ‘Nation’:
Karnataka’s Reunification Revisited, Economic and
Political Weekly.
British versus Princely Legacies and the Political
Integration of Gujarat ,John R. Wood Source: The Journal of
Asian Studies, Vol. 44, No. 1 (Nov., 1984), pp. 65-99
Published by: Association for Asian Studies Stable URL:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2056747 Accessed: 27-06-
2016 07:44 UTC
Linguistic "Competing Imaginations: Language and Anti-colonial
Identity Nationalism in India," Tharakeshwar V.B, Asha Sarangi &
and Sudha Pai, Interrogating Reorganisation of States: Culture,
1 4 Identity and Politics in India (2015).
State
“Unificati Simpson, The idea of Gujarat: History, ethnography, text
on” https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301199092_The
_idea_of_Gujarat_History_ethnography_text
BR Ambedkar, “Maharashtra as a Linguistic Province”
MITHILESH KUMAR JHA, LANGUAGE POLITICS AND PUBLIC SPHERE IN
NORTH INDIA: MAKING OF THE MAITHILI MOVEMENT (First edition
ed. 2018).
Language and the Nationality Question, Sadhna Saxena
Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 32, No. 6 (Feb. 8-14,
1997), pp. 268-272, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4405069
Article 363, Constitution of India
TMA Pai – para 323
2 State 6 Article 3, Proviso to Article 131
Reorgani Extracts of SRC Report: Hyderabad, Andhra and Punjab
sation Parliamentary debates on SRC: Nehru, N.C. Chatterjee, GB
Pant
States Reorganisation Act1956, Constitution (Ninth
Amendment) Bill and Constitution (Seventh Amendment)
Bill
Mullaperiyar Environmental Protection Forum v. Union of
India, (2006) 3 SCC 643
State of Bombay v. Dr Sarjoo Prasad, 1969 Mah LJ Note 40
K. Sridhar Kumar v. Union of India, Ministry of Law, Justice
and Company Affairs, 2002 SCC OnLine Mad 126
State of Punjab v. Balbir Singh, (1976) 3 SCC 242
Harbhajan Singh v. State of Haryana, (2023) 11 SCC 648
H.H. Shri Swamiji of Shri Amar Mutt v. Commr., Hindu
Religious and Charitable Endowments Deptt., (1979) 4
SCC 642
State of M.P. v. Lafarge Dealers Assn., (2019) 7 SCC 584
Module 5 The region in India’s Constitution
Module
Outcome Upon completion of the module, students should be able to
(MO5)
Hour
Topics Reference Material
s
The region in 4 Three Planes of Space: Examining Regions
India, Theoretically in India Author(s): SUDIPTA
conceptually KAVIRAJ Source: Economic and Political Weekly,
Vol. 52, No. 46 (NOVEMBER 18, 2017), pp. 56-63
Published by: Economic and Political Weekly
Stable URL:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26697589
Accessed: 13-05-2023 06:32 +00:00
1 "Regionalism and Problems of National
Integration in India," KC Pande, 1-12
Regionalism and National Integration,
Proceedings of a Seminar ed., KC Pande PC
Mathur, Aalekh Publishers
Introduction, Rethinking state politics in India:
regions within regions, (Ashutosh Kumar ed., 1.
publ ed. 2011).
2 The region in 4 Article 371
the Punjab Regional Committees
constitution Order, 1957
Makhan Singh Tarsikka vs State Government Of
Punjab, 1965 Punjab HC
Andhra Pradesh Regional Committees Order
1958
V. Ramachandra Rao And Ors. vs The Andhra
Pradesh Regional Committee AIR1965AP306
Select excerpts from parliamentary proceedings
(1956)
Select excerpts from parliamentary proceedings
on reorganization of Punjab (1966)
Regional 4 Nagpur Pact, 1953
development The Development Boards for Vidarbha,
in the Marathwada and the rest of Maharashtra Order,
constitution 1994
3
Balasaheb Dhondiram Jagdale vs State of
Maharashtra 2008 (110) Bom L R 1617
Select excerpts from parliamentary proceedings
on reorganization of Bombay state (1960)
Nativism: the 6 A.S. Vimalakshi and Ors. Vs State of Karnataka
limits of ILR 2019 KARNATAKA 2078
federalism Department-Related Parliamentary Standing
Committee on Home Affairs One Hundred And
Sixty Fourth Report On Constitution (One
Hundred Eighteenth Amendment) Bill, 2012
BETHANY LACINA, RIVAL CLAIMS: ETHNIC VIOLENCE AND
TERRITORIAL AUTONOMY UNDER INDIAN FEDERALISM
(2017).
Chapter 5, Myron Weiner, Sons of the Soil:
Migration and Ethnic Conflict in India (1978).
“Federalism in a tinderbox,”
https://www.outlookindia.com/national/putting-
asymmetric-federalism-in-a-tinder-box-in-india-
news-182801
Usha Mehta & Ors vs State Of Maharashtra
4 AIRONLINE 2004 SC 601
Dr. Pradeep Jain vs Union Of India 1984 AIR
1420
A.V.S. Narasimha Rao v. State of A.P., (1969) 1
SCC 839
Public Employment (Requirement as to
Residence) Act, 1957
Saurabh Chaudri v. Union of India, (2003) 11
SCC 146
IMT Industrial Association v. State of Haryana,
2023 SCC OnLine P&H 2867
https://theprint.in/india/sc-extends-by-a-year-
exemption-to-linguistic-minority-school-
students-from-writing-tamil-language-paper/
1357680
Articles 16(3) and 371D
Module 6 New Federalism
Module Upon completion of the module, students should be able to make
Outcome constitutional arguments pertaining to Indian federalism based on the
(MO6) ideas discussed in this course
Hour
Topics Reference Material
s
New 4 1. “Assam govt to bring law restricting land dealings in
Nativism select revenue circles: Himanta”
? Old https://theprint.in/india/assam-govt-to-bring-law-
Unity? restricting-land-dealings-in-select-revenue-circles-
himanta/2258600/
2. No. RDM-12011(17)/5/2022-LR-REV-R&DM/94 (e-file
no: 234314), Department of Revenue, Government of
Assam
(https://basundhara.assam.gov.in/Docs/mb2_doc1.pdf
)
3. Uttarakhand restricts sale of land for agriculture as
1 locals protest tourism infrastructure boom
scroll.in/article/1067034/uttarakhand-restricts-sale-of-
land-for-agriculture-as-locals-protest-tourism-
infrastructure-boom
4. The Domicile Law of Jammu and Kashmir | Economic
and Political Weekly, (2020),
https://www.epw.in/journal/2020/37/commentary/domi
cile-law-jammu-and-kashmir.html (last visited Dec 10,
2024).
5. Jammu and Kashmir Grant of Domicile Certificate
(Procedure) Rules, 2020
6. In Re: Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955 2024
INSC 789
Union 2 GNCTD vs Union of India (2018)
2 Territorie In Re: Article 370 of the Constitution 2023 INSC 1058
s Haji Abdul Gani Khan vs Union of India (2023)
SECTION C: OUTCOME MAPPING
PO-CO MATRIX:
PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4 PO5
CO1 Yes Yes Yes No No
CO2 No Yes Yes Yes/No No
CO3 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
CO4 No Yes Yes Yes No
CO1
Identify the ideas that underpinned federalism in India
:
CO2 Develop constitutional arguments in relation to federal governance based on
: constitutional philosophy and history
CO3
Analyse contemporary challenges in the field of federalism
:
CO4
Compare various federal arrangements within and outside India
:
CO-MO MATRIX:
MO1 MO2 MO3 MO4 MO5
CO1 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
CO2 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
CO3 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
CO4 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SECTION D: ASSESSMENT
Pattern and CO Mapping
Mark
Type Description CO Mapping
s
Mid- CO1/ CO2/ CO3/
semester 1.5 hour closed-book exam CO4 35
exam
Policy paper on any theme discussed in CO1/ CO2/ CO3/
Project 15
class (2000 words) CO4
Project CO1/ CO2/ CO3/
Presentatio Presentation based on project CO4 10
n
1.75 hours paper including application CO1/ CO2/ CO3/
End Exam 40
and theory-based questions CO4
Total 100
