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"Religious Regulation in India" published on by Oxford University Press.

Describes the origins, evolution, & operations of India's Constitution, which is the world's largest & is in essence an intricate legal code addressing all major facets of the country's constitutional & administrative system. Given India's vast geographic size & tremendous pluralism, the Constitution encodes a quite centralized polity that accords the Union government powers adequate to enforce its dominance & govern unitarily. Just as significant, India's diversity & socioeconomic situation, along with the ideological impact of socialism, impelled the Constitution toward a type of organically unitary federation under the aegis of equality, justice, & protection of rights. Many of its framers believed that only a robust central government could successfully foster economic development & guarantee fairness across territories, religions, languages, classes, & castes. However, since 1989, coalition central governments, a growth in state & regional political parties, & economic liberalization have had a decentralizing effect in a number of ways on the political system. K. Coddon