Serves as a complete textbook (including practicals) for second year students of pharmacy. The main objective of the book is to explain the fundamentals of pharmaceutics in the simplest possible language. It keeps the balance between the basic essentials and advanced areas of knowledge, apart from the usual topics. It is a thoughtful compilation as a backbone of pharmaceutics. The book covers a wide range of areas in brief and contains a comprehensive description. The text deals with not only the basic concepts but also emphasizes technical and practical aspects of the subject. The most distinguishing features of the book are ample long answer and short answer type questions, objective questions and experiments in pharmaceutics, which are highly useful to the readers.