The book ‘Pradeshik Niyojan’ (Regional Planning: The Indian Context) discusses in detail all the facets of the topic of regional planning: it explains the concepts of ‘region’ and ‘planning’ and covers the history of development planning in India. The idea of underdevelopment, reasons behind underdevelopment and programmes designed by the Planning Commission and NITI Ayog to fight underdevelopment are highlighted. Details of specific cases and examples make discussions lucid for the reader. Language is kept simple so that complicated issues like sustainable development, development models, applied side of delineation of regions and planning are easy to grasp.