Ancient India has nothing to claims as the spectacular political and military achievements of its national governments, like the wars of aggression against foreign powers, territorial acquisitions abroad, colonial exploitation of foreign lands and the people, enslavement of foreign nationals or forcible conversion of the vanquished to their dogmatic creeds on the analogy of the Arabic and Turkish religions crusaders of the medieval ages or the modern 'nation states' of Europe. On the other hand, Ancient India was 'a civilization', which not only nurtured on its soil one of the earliest civilized communities of the Homo sapiens but also made a substantial contribution towards the religious, moral and material advancement of many other countries of southeast and central Asia. To match the great military generals, conquerors, emperors, and other outstanding historic personalities of the world, like Alexander the Great, Constantine the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte, Mahmud of Ghazni, Muhammad Ghori, Amir Timur and Changez Khan, etc; ancient India offers its role models to the readers in the person of Ashoka the Great, Gautama Buddha and Vardhmana Mahavir with their eternal message of love, peace, non-violence (ahimsa) and universal brotherhood. This is the one special feature of ancient Indian history and culture that prompts its authors to offer their work for the perusal of the global readership.

About the Author
History of Ancient India (From the Earliest Times to 1206 A.D. is a joint venture of two reputed academicians and university teachers Dr. J. L. Mehta, and accomplished historian, and Dr. Sarita Mehta, a renowned Indologist, educationists, art specialist and poetess. Whereas J. L. Mehta is an alumnus of the Punjab University, Lahore/Chandigarh (India), his illustrious daughter, Sarita Mehta received her higher education from the portals of the Punjab University, Chandigarh, and the Punjab University, Patiala.

During the last six decades of his fruitful academic career, Dr. J.L. Mehta has published a number of research papers, monographs and books, including his four serial publications, under the caption, Advanced Study in the History of Medieval and Modern India, brought out by the Sterling Publishers (New Delhi), and the New Dawn Press, Inc. (U.K., U.S.A. & India).

Dr. Sarita Mehta, now settled U.S.A., is a widely travelled person. During one of her sojourns in Philippines, Russia, U. K., France and Canada, besides U.S.A., in connection with a research project, titled, Comparative Study of Educational Systems in these countries was a delegate at the Sandwell College, London, in June 1999. Now formally engaged for the teaching of Hindi in a prestigious College of New York, she holds charge of the Vidyadham an educational institution of the migrant Indians in New York (U.S.A.), as its Director. Her keen interest in the various socio-religious problems of the global society motivated her to enroll herself as a regular student in the Unification Theological Seminary, New York, from where she obtained the Master's Degree in Religions Education in June 2003. She has contributed a number of articles, research paper and monographs in reputed journals in the fields of ancient India history and culture, education, fine arts and sociology.