Synopsis Rural Development for Social Change" is the outcome of the papers contributed by eminent scholars in the field of social science. Based on secondary as well as primary sources of data these papers focus light on various dimensions of rural development. Aggregate real investment in rural regions of our country accelerates the pace of development by way of increase in income, employment and standard of living of the rural poor. Thus, rural development through rural roads, health services, education, employment, development of infrastructure etc. bring about a social change in the positive directions. It is believed that this work will be of immensely useful to the researchers, politicians, administers, policy makers in formulating policy paradigms for the rural India.