It is essential to locate the recent developments in J&K on the larger canvas of state reorganisation in India. In the coming days, the challenges to federalism will come from the unwillingness of dominant groups, which control state governments/state legislatures, to share power with other minority groups. As a consequence, there will be increased demand from sub-regional ethnic groups for creation of new states. Parliament will be placed in an unenviable position of redressing the grievances of minority groups within various states as has happened in the case of J&K. Sub-regional ethnic demands for share in political power could be satiated if urban/rural local bodies are empowered,
