The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables c3.3

c3.3

The publication of such a work in international collaboration was first proposed by one of us to the 29th International Congress of Orientalists meeting in Paris in 1973. The proposal was accepted in a unanimous resolution. After the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and the Department of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Pakistan, had agreed to collaborate with the University of Helsinki in bringing out the Corpus, after the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters had agreed to publish it in its *Annales*, and after distinguished experts from many countries had supported the scheme, an application for financial assistance was submitted to the International Union of Philosophy and Human Studies (CIPSH) through the International Union of Oriental and Asian Studies. The General Assembly of UNESCO meeting at Nairobi in 1976 agreed to support the Corpus as a scholarly project of a confirmed international character and of major importance.