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  2. Politics of India - Wikipedia

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    State governments in India are the governments ruling over 28 states and 8 union territories of India and the head of the Council of Ministers in a state is the Chief Minister. Each state has a legislative assembly. A state legislature that has one house – the State Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) – is a unicameral legislature.

  3. History of India - Wikipedia

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    The polity ruled over large parts of the Indian subcontinent from the 13th to early 16th centuries. [227] The sultanate was founded in the 12th and 13th centuries by Central Asian Turks, who invaded parts of northern India and established the state atop former Hindu holdings. [ 228 ]

  4. Constitution of India - Wikipedia

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    The Constitution was signed and accepted (with 395 Articles, 8 Schedules, and 22 Parts). [30] 26 January 1950: The Constitution came into force. (The process took 2 years, 11 months and 18 days [23] —at a total expenditure of ₹6.4 million to finish.) [31]

  5. Polity - Wikipedia

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    A polity is a group of people with a collective identity, who are organized by some form of political institutionalized social relations, and have a capacity to mobilize resources. [ 1 ] A polity can be any group of people organized for governance, such as the board of a corporation, the government of a country, or the government of a country ...

  6. Maratha Confederacy - Wikipedia

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    The Maratha Confederacy, [a] also referred to as the Maratha Empire, [12] [13] [14] was an early modern polity in the Indian subcontinent.It comprised the realms of the Peshwa and four major independent Maratha states [15] [16] often subordinate to the former.

  7. Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of India - Wikipedia

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    The Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Eighth Amendment) Act, 1959, amended article 334 of the Constitution in order to extend the period of reservation of seats for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and representation of the Anglo-Indians in the Lok Sabha and the State Legislative Assemblies for ten years, i.e. up to 26 January 1970.

  8. Constitution - Wikipedia

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    Constitution of the Year XII (First French Republic) Constitution of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1848. A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organization or other type of entity, and commonly determines how that entity is to be governed.

  9. Fundamental rights in India - Wikipedia

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    This is known as "public interest litigation". [8] In some cases, High Court judges have acted suo moto on their own on the basis of newspaper reports. These fundamental rights help not only in protection but also the prevention of gross violations of human rights.