Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. India is a federal union of states comprising twenty-eight states and seven union territories. The states and territories are further subdivided into districts and so on.The Constitution of India distributes the sovereign powers exercisable with respect to the territory of any State between the Union and that State. "Article 73 broadly stated, provides that the executive power of the Union shall extend to the matters with respect to which Parliament has power to make laws. Article 162 similarly provides that the executive power of a State shall extend to the matters with respect to which the Legislature of a State has power to make laws. The Supreme Court has reiterated this position when it ruled in Ramanaiah case that the executive power of the Union or of the State broadly speaking, is coextensive and coterminus with its respective legislative power."