The major new direction of change in the Indian political system today is the gradual political decentering of a predominantly parliamentary system of the first four decades after Independence into a new federalizing and globalizing India since the early 90s. The early stirrings of federalization were indeed evident in the territorial reorganization of the states along linguistic lines in response to popular movements in the 50s and 60s. Further territorial reorganization was subsequently agitated for and conceded on tribal lines in the north-east and on regional economic backwardness in Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, and Chhattisgarh. Another strand of federalization was evident in the grant of asymmetrical federalism in Jammu & Kashmir, Nagaland, and Mizoram. The political factors that have led to the process of federalization are the party system transformation with regional parties coming to play a decisive balancing role in Indian politics and globalization.