01 Feb 2001

Indus Script Decipherment
www.indusscript.net, Delhi, India
Self-description: "The Author has taken all care to convince the critical world of the Indus studies about his view point by reconstructing the dead and forgotten Indus Language. He has also tried to show the missing link between Indus and Sanskrit and, by the way has also challenged the reconstruction of the parent IE."
Site contents: About The Author; Introduction to the Indus Script; The Clues to Decipherment; An Indus Dictionary; Historical Indus Grammar; Deciphered Texts Books on Decipherment; Review of Other Attempts of Decipherment; The Society Reflecting in the Indus Scripts; The Concept of Sarasvati; The Basis of the Vedic Mythology; A History Rewritten.
URL http://www.indusscript.net/index.html
Link reported by: Madhusudan Mishra (madhusudan_mishra@hotmail.com)
[A Thu, 8 Feb 2001 comment by Dr David Magier (magier@columbia.edu), South Asia Librarian, Columbia University: "Readers of the entry [...] entitled 'Indus Script Decipherment' need to note the following. There is a very widespread, politically motivated hoax being propagated [...] in India, through self-publishing in print and on the web [...] Much of [... that] work has been explicitly debunked and refuted by the scholarly world, but it still pops up here and there. This author's claim to have deciphered the Indus Valley script, like the others that form part of this [...hoax], is not accepted by established academic consensus. [...] For a [..] detailed analysis of another, similar claim of decipherment, see http://www.the-hindu.com/fline/fl1720/17200040.htm For a good general scholarly look at the field, see http://www.harappa.com/script/index.html"]
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available