The concept of special education was materialized by gradual and constant developments having social development at core. Special education is meant for children with significant disabilities such as impaired hearing, cerebral palsy, visual impairment, intellectual disability of emotional disturbance. Here in the present book we have chosen twelve articles, representing the crucial issues and social development. The themes include-Literacy and Special Education; Need for Community Services for the Community Services for the Mentally Handicapped; Reading: Making a Start; Socialization Process and Special Education; Problems of Severely Mentally Retarded Children; Some Research Perspectives in Special Education; Reading: Additional Techniques and Resources: Finding from a Programme for Non-Retarded, Low Income Preschool Children; Epidemiology and Evaluation of Services for the Mentally Handicapped; Improving Social and Peer Groups Acceptance; Supporting Development in Writing; Developing Spelling Skills etc. The information contained herein will benefit researchers, students, and teachers besides the educational policy planners, social scientists and socio-educational activities in the field.

Social problem is a multi- faceted issue, discussed world-wide in present time. With globalisation, there is a growing paradigm shift in the life of man. "Think locally and act globally" seems to be the ruling principle of life. The emergence of the new world-order has brought in its wake a number of problems, too. Grading technology, ensuring security and getting dominance or at least an attempt to be able to keep pace with others is a concern found everywhere. It has occupied such a significant place in the lives of people that values either have been thrown into oblivion or are being replaced by multiplying concerns for taking over others. Present Encyclopaedia addresses all the issues of grave importance, surfacing fast in today's society. It attempts at striking the roots of those problems, which may result in the degradation of society in the years to come. A must read for all social enthusiasts.

Indian writing in English, especially fiction, is gaining by leaps and bounds. Yet Indian English literary scene bristles with amazing anomalies and curious contradictions. Some writers like Mulkraj Anand. R.K.Narayan, Raja Rao and others have given - excessive critical attention, while many others especially women writers have been neglected. Nergis Dalal is one such writer, who can be said to have suffered unjust critical neglect. Even well-known scholars have not analysed her fiction properly. Though she has not been able to rise to the stature of Anita Desai or Kamala Markandaya, she is a versatile genius whose creative writings are not limited to the field of fiction alone. The present study aims at thematic study of Nergis Dalal's entire work. Study includes not only her fiction but also her non-fictional writings.

With the broad aim of catering to the fundamental necessity of the beginners in the discipline, the book goes deeper into the socio-political variables that shapes the kaleidoscopic map of the discipline and provides a new vista in the field of political analysis. The book contains ten chapters in toto which are more or less self contained in themselves and complementary in character, giving strength to one another by supplementing the missing number. The concept of political sociology, the emergence of the discipline, its difference from politics, sociology and sociology of politics, the seminal contributions, approaches, nature, scope of the discipline-all have been dealt exhaustively in the First Chapter in order to make the students know certain elementary concepts. While Chapter Two, make the students know certain elementary concepts, While Chapter Two, makes an aerial survey of the political system. Chapter Three focuses its attention on structural functionalism. The Fourth Chapter tries to assimilate certain politological aspects in political sociology such as power, authority, legitimacy, leadership etc. One the same line Chapter Five enlists a set of sociological aspects like caste, class and tribe and their impact on organized politics. The Sixth Chapter delineates in great details political culture and its role in societal structure. The Seventh Chapter delicately deals with the process of political socialization and its role in the socio-political context. The Eighth one, throws light on social stratification whereas the Ninth Chapter explains vividly about modernization. Finally, Chapter Ten makes an attempt to study the progress of social change and the agents that make social change inevitable.