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The study aims at understanding the phenomena of social well-being in terms of socio-economic attributes over geographical space. Despite the limitations of indicators of well-being and the generalization at the taluka level, the study brings out the spatial variations in levels of social well-being in Gujarat especially so on the spatial framework of inter-taluka, inter district and inter-regional units. The spatial patterns of composite levels of social well being as revealed in the study may go a long way in guiding the district administrators, regional and State planners, voluntary social organizations and parliamentarians in achieving the desired spatial patterns of social well-being in Gujarat. The book will be useful to geographers sociologists, economists, regional and district planners and administrators. About the Author K.M.Kulkarni received his doctorate in Geography from the University of Bombay in 1976 and is now Lecturer in Geography at Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. His main research interests are in the field of Urban Studies and Locational Analysis and he is currently directing a research project entitled Geography of Crowding and Human Response  A case study of Ahmedabad City, sponsored by the University Grants Commission, New Delhi. He has worked as Research Officer in a project sponsored by the Family Planning Foundation at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.