Caste based social inequality is embedded in Socio-cultural context of India and resulted in disparity or unequal development in multiple aspects including Employment and Education. The students from this vulnerable social group lag behind their counterparts in Academic achievement. In this book a vivid presentation is made about the challenges and problems encountered by the adolescent children (boys-girls and rural-urban) from this disadvantaged social groups; their personality pattern, anxiety levels and emotional intelligence; parenting behaviour in their families; teaching behaviour as perceived by them and the psycho-social predictors of academic achievement of this group. This book will immense helpful for policy framers, educationists and researchers who have the interest on education of disadvantaged social group or ethnic minority group