This Series on Practical and Professional Ethics is an outcome of major research project funded by the UGC in which the task of resolving some value-laden practical problems troubling the professionals and the non-professionals in India was undertaken. Apart from clarifying the nature, tasks and interrelation of practical and professional ethics, this set of six volumes explains the nature analysis and justification of ethical or value-laden practical problems such as environmental, biomedical, educational, economic and business, and socio-political ethical problems. This Volume, Socio-Political Ethics, deals with the nature, analysis and justification of social, political and legal ethics. It tries to clarify the meaning and significance of social, political and legal ethics, and their interrelation. The justification of social, political and legal ethics intends to enravel the way in which the factual problems pertaining to society, polity and legality open for ethical scrutiny, and the way in which the performance of the tasks of ethics relates to these problems. The book also considers some value crises in our society, polity and legality for their nature analyses; that is, to clarify their value-laden nature, and the way in which we should resolve these value-crises. In this regard the value-laden problems of: Caste, Class, Religion and Marriage; Divorce; Affirmative Actions; Secession of States; Forms of Public Protest and Capital Punishment have been discussed. The book tries to underline the role of application of ethics and professional ethics as People’s Ethics.