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The social dynamics in India is getting more and more complex and unpredictable with rapid change in the development pattern of the country. Enormous change has taken place in the economic and social scenario since the last decade of the last century with unprecedented growth in artificial intelligence (AI) based technology worldwide. Transnational transfer of technology is gaining momentum resulting in huge change in the life style of common people of India along with the other countries of south-east Asia. Economic and social changes under the influence of the said technology have been seen to be both positively and negatively associated with the empowerment factor from case to case basis. In this backdrop, the proposed edited volume under the title ‘Mapping Social Issues in India: Causes and Measures’ is possibly an endeavour to capture the components of changes in the dynamic profile of Indian society. The components includes among others the labor displacement under the face of technological onslaught in small scale industry, not so good public health and educational system resulting in emergence of private entrepreneurs, shifting from skill based profession to different service sectors etc. Addressing these components in isolated manner is of no use as the model of social change is multidimensional and it is a composite function of a huge number of variables, not always uncorrelated among themselves. From this point of view the present work is really a challenging one and its success will depend on the views and analysis which would be available in the contributed papers. Obviously the claims supported by facts and figures will be of real help but caution should be taken against oversimplification or overgeneralization for reaching at a forced conclusion.