Subject(s): Community development -- Non-governmental organizations -- Voluntary Organization -- Theoretical perspectives : On dialectics of voluntary organizations and social change, voluntary organizations and social change, voluntary organizations and development, role of voluntary agencies in social change, role of voluntary organizations in social change, voluntary organizations and social change, need of ethnosociologist, voluntary organizations- social change initiators -- Case studies : Role of vijnanprabhodhini in creating awareness among people, role of NGO in alcoholic deaddiction movements in karnataka, Bahubali- gurukul system of education and social change, voluntary organization as a catalytic agent of social change- adgaon project, rotary clubs and social development, voluntary organization and rural development- experiment of Dilasa in Aurangabad, voluntary organization and community development in Maharashtra, women voluntary organizations in Kolhapur city, role of NGO in social transformation, women voluntary organizations and social change in Hyderabad -- Voluntary efforts of scheduled castes and rural development in J& K, voluntary efforts of scheduled castes and their development- selected evidence from north India, voluntary organizations and social change in Karnataka, role of NGO in crisis families, voluntary organizations and social change in footwear industries in Agra, changes in rural society through voluntary action