This book is an outcome of the Seminar on "Inclusive Growth and Social Tensions" conducted in the Department of Economics, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam on 6-7 October, 2010. About 600 delegates participated and nearly 500 delegates presented papers and participated in the discussion and deliberations. I am highly thankful to the paper contributors for helping me in bringing out this book which will be of some help to the researchers and also policy makers in India.

By D. Pulla Rao