It is argued, "The constitution assembly, in fact, produced a new kind of federalism to meet India's peculiar needs." But 'India's peculiar needs' have compounded manifolds thus posing a formidable challenge of enlisting the desired cooperation from all three-the Center, the States and the local-sets of government. Historically, the adoption of the concept of federalism was more of a necessity than choice. The prevalence of fissiparous tendencies; the religious communal frenzy; and partition of the country called for a centralized federal union. The practical problem of governing culturally and regionally diverse India knocked on the doors of British administration quite early thus resulting in Montengue-Chemsford report on constitutional Reforms (1918) which stated: "our conception of the centralized future of India is a sisterhood or provincial states, self governing in all matters if purely local or provincial interest. Over this congeries of States would preside the central government. " Based on this report, Government of India, 1919, developed some powers and authority to the provinces. Provinces received explicit control over sources of revenue such as land, health , agriculture, irrigation and public works.