Discussing recent developments in both theoretical and experimental nuclear physics, Contemporary Nuclear Physics presents thirty three articles presented at The National Seminar on "Contemporary Nuclear Physics" organized by the Institute of Physics. Topics range from structure to reaction dynamics, from hadrons to quarks, from the terrestrial to the astophysical, andfrom the conventional to the exotic. These include heavy ion collisions, quark gluon plasma, early universe, nucleons, mesons, quarks and QCD, neutron starts, nuclear astrophysics, exotic nuclei, nuclear masses, nuclear structure, deformations, mean fields, high spin states, superheavy nuclei and giant resonances.