Pandey, Rajendra Kumar creator text xu| 2015 continuing ng p.23-39. In the federal framework of Indian polity, countering terrorism has been complicated by an unsavoury spat between Centre and States over their respective competencies and roles in the matter. Centre seeks to play a proactive and commanding role on the plea of protecting the unity and integrity of the nation. However, states perceive such a central role as an encroachment in their eminent constitutional domains of public order and police. Amidst these contending positions, the course of anti-terror measures has tended to disturb the precarious federal balance in the field of Centre-State administrative relations. By asserting its domineering role in anti-terror activities, Centre seems to be claiming a prominent role in the domains constitutionally and conventionally vested with the States. But such tendencies on the part of the Centre may neither augur well for tackling terrorism nor the endurance of federal balance. The article, therefore, argues that Indian federalism may be placed in a perilous position in the course of anti-terror measures unless States are taken as the constitutionally empowered stakeholders in coping with the menace of terrorism. - Reproduced. Terrorism - India Federalism - India Terrorism Indian Journal of Public Administration 180718