Indian Epigraphy c2.2

c2.2

In 1954, the University of Calcutta requested me to revise the *Select Inscriptions* for a second edition. While revising the work and correcting the proofs of the revised edition, the old desire to write a text book on Indian epigraphy and palaeography again seized me, and I planned a small work on the subjects. Soon I completed some short chapters on Indian palaeography together with a few on certain connected topics of epigraphy in the lines of G. Bühler's *Indische Palaeographie* and G. H. Ojha's *Bhāratīya Prācīn Lipimālā*. It was only then that I realised that Indian epigraphy required a more elaborate treatment in a separate volume.