This book seeks to articulate a coherent strategic pro-poor planning option with social mobilisation for eradication of the worst forms of poverty in South Asia, in a given time frame, leaving only residual numbers of the poor to be carried by welfare and safety nets, and the management of social transformation in South Asia.This book has successfully met the explicit intellectual challenge of synthesizing 20 years of lessons of praxis into a coherent structure, combining detailed critical analysis with the broadness of the canvas, and further unfolding this story by side with the Report of the Independent South Asian Commission on Poverty Alleviation. Even though parts of the book are drawn directly from reports,the overall format is not that of a report, but presents a variety in tone and texture, in keeping with the inherent diversity of the source material.In fact, the mutuality of relationship is complementary and one illustrates the other, in practice.The key issues critically examined in this book include the perspective and framework for poverty eradication;social mobilisation and new social movements in South Asia and strategic pro-poor planning methodology. All of these aim at engendering efficiency among the poor themselves, to enable them to charter their own successful future. The book is an innovative, state-of-the art primer on poverty eradication, with social mobilisation as the core methodology. The book takes in all the major issues on the subject and its content is substantial.