<P> The Government of India (GoI) is the union government created by the constitution of India as the legislative, executive and judicial authority of the union of 29 states and seven union territories of a constitutionally democratic republic . It is located in New Delhi, the capital of India . </P> <P> The full name of India is the Republic of India . The names of India have a long and complex history which stem all the way back to the Greek and Roman times . It is thought that the word Hindustan comes from the Sanskrit word Sindhu, which means "the sea". This evolved in the word Hindu and Hindustan . India comes from the Indus river and the Greeks and Romans wrote about it as India . This became widespread in their writing and then commonly used to refer to the area between the Indus and the Ganges . As time went on, the British favored using India on their maps and this became more commonplace than Hindustan . </P> <P> Affecting the Westminster system for governing the state, the union government is mainly composed of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, in which all powers are vested by the Constitution in Parliament, the Prime Minister and the Supreme Court . The President of India is the Head of State and the Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces while the elected Prime Minister acts as the chief executive (of the executive branch) and is responsible for running the union government . There is a bicameral Parliament with the Lok Sabha as a lower house and the Rajya Sabha as an upper house . The judicial branch systematically contains an apex Supreme Court, 24 high courts, and several district courts, all inferior to the Supreme Court . </P> <P> The basic civil and criminal laws governing the citizens of India are set down in major parliamentary legislation, such as the Civil Procedure Code, the Indian Penal Code, and the Criminal Procedure Code . Similar to the union government, individual state governments each consist of executive, legislative and judicial branches . The legal system as applicable to the union and individual state governments is based on the English Common and Statutory Law . The full name of the country is the Republic of India . India and Bharat are equally official short names for the Republic of India in the Constitution, and both names appears on legal banknotes, in treaties and in legal cases . The Union Government, Central Government or Government of India (Bharat Sarkar) are often used in an official and unofficial capacity to refer to the Government of India . Because the seat of government is in New Delhi, "New Delhi" is commonly used as a synonym for the Central Government . </P>

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