You will prepare and submit a term paper on Comparison of Federalism in Regards to Ethnicity in India and Ethiopia. Your paper should be a minimum of 1500 words in length.

You will prepare and submit a term paper on Comparison of Federalism in Regards to Ethnicity in India and Ethiopia. Your paper should be a minimum of 1500 words in length. The present research has identified that the Federation of India was still named as the most successful federal system. It is said to have shown a good example of how federalism contained claims from ethnic groups to secession. On the other hand, Ethiopia was most likely the only federation in the world which had declared the collective right of all ethnic groups in its boundaries the right to rule themselves. According to the Ethiopian Constitution of 1995, ethnic groups had the right to self-government, including the right to secession. Assefa adds that nevertheless the system of Ethiopia was marked by the centralized government, and local ethnic disagreements were common, particularly in ethnically assorted regions. Ethiopia has large ethnic diversity with 84 ethnic groups. Twelve of these ethnic groups have a population of more than half a million out of a population of 53 million in 1994. The Oromo and the Amhara are the two major ethnic groups which make up over 62 percent of Ethiopia’s population. Tigray is the third largest ethnic group, and it has been the politically dominant ethnic group since 1991 but covers only 6 percent of the population. The three ethnic groups constitute more than two-thirds of the population. By 1994, four other ethnic groups, that is, Gurage, Somali, Welaita, and Sidama, had attained a population of over one million each. The seven largest ethnic groups comprise approximately 85 percent of the country's population. The five minor ethnic groups. Afar, Gamo, Hadiya, Keffa, and Gedeo, had reached populations of between 599,000 and 1,000,000. The twelve largest ethnic groups constitute almost 92 percent of the population. Fourteen ethnic groups had populations between 100,000 and 500,000, while twenty-eight ethnic groups had a population ranging between 10,000 and 100,000.