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The textbook of Pharmaceutics has been written for students of diploma in pharmacy first-year students keeping in mind specific requirements of the Pharmacy Council of India (PCI), Education Regulation - 2020. This is a bilingual book in both English and Hindi for easy understanding to students. This book is covering the entire syllabus as per new PCI norms including practicals and previous year question papers. This book containing thirteen chapters with an introduction to the pharmacy profession and career. In preceding chapters, packaging materials and pharmaceutical aids have been discussed. In chapter 4 the unit operations required in the preparation of formulations have been discussed like mixing, drying, extraction, size reduction, and separation. In chapters, 5-10 different pharmaceutical formulations have been discussed including tablets, capsules, liquid, semisolid, and parenteral dosage forms. The remaining chapters are about immunological products, manufacturing plants, and novel drug delivery systems.