Introduction The issue of NCT has been a source of contention for quite some time. It is complicated because it not only creates tension between the centre and the states, essentially undermining the federal spirit, but it also creates a power struggle between the executive, or LG, and the elected representative government. Federalism Federalism is a form of political structure that binds distinct polities together within a larger political framework while allowing each to re

Indian freedom struggle can be subdivided into three phases. The first phase is the moderate phase which as the name suggests was moderate both in terms of means and methods. The second phase is characterised by extremism, extremists took an aggressive stance against the British rule and did not hesitate in resorting to extra-constitutional or non-constitutional methods of agitation. The third and last phase is the Gandhian phase which is characterised by mass struggle. The h

History & Background The Moderates, also known as 'Early Nationalists,' were a group of political figures that initiated India's first organised national movement. They dominated the affairs of the Indian National Congress from 1885 - 1909. The British groundwork for the establishment of an all-India organisation had been laid in the late 1870s and early 1880s. The final shape was given by AO Hume, a retired English civil servant who rallied major intellectuals of the time. T

Start of WWII and Fall of France to Nazi Occupation At the commencement of World War II in 1939, British India entered into the war but this was done without consulting the National Congress or elected members of the central legislature. Although the National Congress had stated unequivocally its solidarity for victims of Fascist assassination, they wanted assurance of India's freedom or at the very least, a transfer of viable power to the interim government before it could s