An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c25.s4.20

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The position as obtaining now thus shows that all the claims of decipherment are invalid. However the work done by various scholars has to an extent helped in understanding the nature of the script and its mechanics. Thus, apart from the first systematic attempt on an undertstanding of the Indus script by Smith and Gadd (in Marshall, 1931, pp. 406-55), works of scholars like Hunter, 1934, Ross, 1938, Heras, 1953, the Finns (Koskenniemi *et al.*, 1973), and the Soviet team of scholars (Alekseev *et al.*, 1965; Gurov *et al.*, 1972; Knorozov *et al.*, 1968, 1970), Mahadevan, 1977, and Fairservis stated in Sankalia, 1978), have contributed to the understanding of the script.