Tracking a script
Last week I referred to two scholars I had met the previous week. An archaeologist, epigrapher and geographer, he is in Madras consulting with local experts as he puts the finishing touches to a book he has titled Epigraphical Approaches to Indus Writing, which is due to be published next year. One comment of Dr. Wells that I much appreciated was his view that whatever answers are found to questions about such civilisations and whatever interpretations are made of their inscriptions, they would always have been influenced by the researcher’s own culture. Wells’s non-Asian, American background would very likely lead him to a totally different view from that of Indian researchers. In fact, I would think even North Indian/Pakistani experts would very likely differ from South Indian scholars on the Indus Civilisation.
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