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Synopsis The present Voluem is the outcome of the proceedings of the 2 day UGC sponsored national Conference entitled 'federalism and day UGC sponsored National Conference entitled 'Federalism in Centre- State Relations', held at the PNO & KR College (Acharya nagarjuna University), Narasaraopet, Guntur District (AP), during 10 & 11 February, 2005, under the directorship of the Editor of this Volume. The Volume papers aims at looking at the implementation of federal features in India from the stand point of discovering the methodology of the formulation of the policy for healthy relations between the federal and state governments with mutual understanding and to draw out what one can realistically expect from the union Government in the context of co-operative federal approach towards the states in an era of coalition polity and governance. The Sixteen Chapters in the Volume are written by outstanding authorities on the subject 'Federalism and Coalition Politics'. These chapters record the experiences and thinking of these authorities on some of the newer issues that confront the federal system in India, under the new dispensation of coalition era. This Volume explored the various facets of the dynamics of federalism, good governance, role of governor, demand for state autonomy and peripheral topics. It is in this context that the present Volume focuses on the need to carry out a futuristic introspection of centre-State relations in the context of a new era of coalition politics and governance at the centre and suggest the ways and means to evolve a mechanism for a healthy Union-State relations.