Biparental progenies of cross Swarna Pratibha x Hisar Shyamal (SP x H-8) of eggplant were evaluated in RBD with three replications for horticultural and quality characters at the Vegetable Research Farm of Department of Vegetable Science and Floriculture, CSKHPKV, Palampur (H.P) during kharif season 2012-13 and 2013-14. The analysis of variance indicated the significant differences among the BIP's and F3 progenies for all the characters studied exhibiting the presence of good quantum of variability between BIP's and F 3 progenies. Biparental progenies when compared with F3 progenies for their overall mean values revealed that BIP's were, in general, having greater means for most of the characters except days to 50% flowering, days to first picking and bacterial wilt incidence. This may be due to more heterozygosity in biparental progenies. The superior performance of biparental families seems to be primarily due to generation of more genetic variability by breakage of both coupling and repulsion phase linkages that conceal the genetic variability in F2. The phenotypic variability as revealed by the coefficient of variation (%) was greater in BIP progenies than F3 progenies except days to first picking, branches per plant, total soluble solids, dry matter content. The association studies revealed that marketable fruit yield was positively and significantly correlated with fruits per plant, plant height and fruit weight, whereas it was negatively and significantly associated with days to 50% flowering and bacterial wilt incidence in both the populations. Path coefficient analysis revealed that direct effects in respect of fruit weight, number of marketable fruits per plant and plant height towards marketable fruit yield was higher in BIP.