Former Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian has said that some degree of redistribution between richer and poorer states is 'inevitable in any fiscal polity', but warned that the pattern of fiscal transfers must remain politically sustainable as regional imbalances deepen.

Subramanian shared the view in a conversation with the Carnegie Endowment alongside Devesh Kapur, his co-author of the new book - A Sixth of Humanity: Independent India’s Development Odyssey. Advertisement

The two authors discussed India's evolving fiscal federal framework amid growing resentment among southern states that contribute more to the central tax pool but receive significantly less in return.

"When you have a nation, you want to knit it together, and there are different regions and places, and bring d

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