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Due to Professor Dani's exceptional position among his colleagues in
Pakistan, most of the contributions by our counterparts were conceived
and published by himself, among them two books, several pamphlets
and articles.
The European researchers involved in the elaboration of the material
collected during thirteen campaigns needed more time than Dani, who
wrote part of his text already in the camp. Therefore it took time until
our volumes could appear (vol. 1, 1989; vol. 2, 1993; Sims-Williams 1,
1989; Sims-Williams 2, 1992). But we started immediately to prepare in-
terim reports dealing with the most spectacular observations. Six con-
tributors offered more than altogether seventy articles in many antholo-
gies and journals.
So there is certainly a problem for other scholars interested in the topic
to get a general idea of our production. Aware of that, I spoke in my in-
troduction to the first volume of our analytical series (/EVP 1) not only
to the articles in that book. I exposed the deciding principles and aims
of our works.
But even when I turned to the contributions I went beyond what is usu-
al. I tried to show for example that by his careful readings of the few
royal inscriptions O. von Hinuber allows to reconstruct the political situ-
ation in the Indus valley beyond what he himself had seen. I was de-
lighted and relieved when I saw that such explications were helpful for
the reader, therefore I repeated this evaluation in the second volume,
especially in respect to the necessary re-study of the Hatun inscription,
mentioning the artistic context. But as this volume contains studies a
large part of which was coordinated by our friend and immediate coun-
terpart Professor Dr Gerard Fussman, member of the Commission of
our Academy which is in charge of the project, I deemed better to ask
him to write a presentation of the papers he collected and edited. I am
glad that he has accepted this proposal.
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Pakistan, most of the contributions by our counterparts were conceived
and published by himself, among them two books, several pamphlets
and articles.
The European researchers involved in the elaboration of the material
collected during thirteen campaigns needed more time than Dani, who
wrote part of his text already in the camp. Therefore it took time until
our volumes could appear (vol. 1, 1989; vol. 2, 1993; Sims-Williams 1,
1989; Sims-Williams 2, 1992). But we started immediately to prepare in-
terim reports dealing with the most spectacular observations. Six con-
tributors offered more than altogether seventy articles in many antholo-
gies and journals.
So there is certainly a problem for other scholars interested in the topic
to get a general idea of our production. Aware of that, I spoke in my in-
troduction to the first volume of our analytical series (/EVP 1) not only
to the articles in that book. I exposed the deciding principles and aims
of our works.
But even when I turned to the contributions I went beyond what is usu-
al. I tried to show for example that by his careful readings of the few
royal inscriptions O. von Hinuber allows to reconstruct the political situ-
ation in the Indus valley beyond what he himself had seen. I was de-
lighted and relieved when I saw that such explications were helpful for
the reader, therefore I repeated this evaluation in the second volume,
especially in respect to the necessary re-study of the Hatun inscription,
mentioning the artistic context. But as this volume contains studies a
large part of which was coordinated by our friend and immediate coun-
terpart Professor Dr Gerard Fussman, member of the Commission of
our Academy which is in charge of the project, I deemed better to ask
him to write a presentation of the papers he collected and edited. I am
glad that he has accepted this proposal.
VIII