The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c2: Author's Preface
The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c2
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Author's Preface
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This work was submitted in manuscript to the University of Oxford in June 1929, when I was supplicating for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Subsequently the manuscript has reposed in the Bodleian Library. Permission to publish it was received from the Government of India, Archaeological Dept., in November 1932.
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It is my pleasant duty here to acknowledge my obligation to the Archaeological Department of the Government of India for permission to copy the inscriptions which form the subject matter of this volume. Since this volume was written I have by their courtesy been enabled to copy all the inscriptions subsequently recovered from Mohenjodaro and Harappa up to April 1931. On this material I am still working. But it is important that I should here state that the study of this new material tends only to fortify most of the conclusions reached in the volume now offered to the public.
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I take this opportunity of expressing my gratitude to Professor Langdon, who most kindly placed at my disposal his own researches on the subject, and to my wife, who did most of the monotonous copying and re-copying involved in the production of the Tables, and whose pen is responsible for all the actual draughting in this volume.
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To Professor Langdon I am also indebted for all arrangements incidental to the publication of this volume, as also for reading the proofs.
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Nagpur, India. The 24th of September, 1933.
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G. R. Hunter.