The Indian polity enshrines the principles of federalism that is not based on the principle of equality. The Union is not the result of ‘coming together’ of the states but the states are the creation of the Constitution of India. This paper broadly discusses the nature of the Indian polity to explore the scope for accommodation of autonomous region of Jammu and Kashmir within the Indian polity. It also demonstrates that the accommodative features of the Indian Polity have their genesis in the anti-colonial struggle. The paper thus highlights that the Article 370 is neither against the principles of federalism nor against the principles of autonomy and tries to analyse the arrangement in the context of asymmetrical model of federalism.