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Synopsis These days various trends are in vogue in the field of education and on the books on education. But the most neglected field is of adult education and social education. As India possess the largest number of illiterate adult persons in the world the relevance of adult education is self understood. These people cannot understand the present day problems of the world, which affect their daily life. These people are unable to ameliorate their lot and are still fatalist as they were two centuries ago. The field of social education is also neglected and the general public is still unaware of the problems hovering over society and the modern days’ paradoxes. As the globalization and industrialization has set in the great social upheaval is in the offing. We are witnessing the technological revolution, information, the revolution in the market and at the home. The old ties of family, kinship and society are in danger of loosening their hold over the individual. This book tries to do justice with the problems in the field of adult education and social education. It is a small but compact book which covers many aspects of adult education and social education. It is hoped that this book will be liked by educators, education administrators, and the researchers in the filed of education.