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Dr. Sivaji Rao Vallurupalli, born on December 6, 1940 in Gudiavalleru, Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh, India, is a career weed scientist and agronomist credited with significant long-lasting contributions to agricultural science for about 40 years. He earned master's degree in agricultural science in 1963 in India and Ph.D. degree in 1973 at Cornell University, lthace, U.S.A. After serving on the research faculty of Cornell for two years, he went back to India in October 1975 to work at various governmental and  nongovernmental research institutions as senior scientist, director and adviser for over 19 years. Dr. Rao published dozens of research papers national and international journals besides the two editions of a popular reference-cum-textbook "Principles of Weed Science" by Oxford & IBH Publishing Company, India, in 1983 and Sciences Publishers, USA, in 2000. This professionally accomplished agricultural scientist returned to the U.S. in 1995 to continue his profession. Despite pursuing his chosen career, he has always nursed an avid and abiding interest in ancient history of the world, with particular reference to India. Having been taught the British-morphed history lessons and seen the contours of the magnificent Indian history through British lens, it become a challenging task to students of his generation to search for the true story and put it in proper perspective. This pursuit, which required a relentless research effort, has been lying dormant waiting for an opportune time to culminate. This decades-old effort has finally materialized in the form of this current book which exposes, narrates, describes and discusses the un-matched, peer-less and deep-rooted history and accomplishments of ancient, medieval and current India. Dr. Sivaji Rao and wife Nirmala Devi live in California, U.S.A. as also their daughter (Madhavi Lata). Son (Srinivas), son-in-law (Rajiev), daughter-in-law (Neelima), grandsons (Nikhil) and (Milind) and granddaughter (Ria).