Synopsis The process of Empowerment of people has augmented the capacity and involvement in their progress and welfare. Currently, development has gradually moved from capacity building to a setting in which people learn by attempting for their development leading to Emancipation. So far many field practitioners have experimented and experienced the Emancipation aspect in their own field as their narrations were reported in different contexts at different places. This volume Is a documentation of articles by the different experts based the perspectives, reviews and studies on the Emancipation of Masses for Social Development. The Editors of this volume have made a humble attempt to bring varied experiences relating to Emancipation of Masses for development under one volume, covering important topics like Empowerment of Women, Child Labour, Self-Help, Self Employment, Poverty Alleviation, Participation by People. This book is expected to fill-up the vacuity to small extent, for ready reference by planners, policy makers and administrators while implementing the developmental programmes.