6. On the Discovery of the Neolithic Indian Script. 
By Hem Cuanpra Das-Gupta, M.A., F.G.S. 
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to our knowledge of prehistoric India are to be included 
two extremely interesting papers by Mr. Yazdani! and by 
Prof. Mitra. On account of the far-reaching nature of 
remarks: will be confined to Prof. Mitra’s discovery 
for a general account of which we are also indebted to Prof. 
Bhandarkar.2 According to Prof. Mitra there exist in the 
collections of the Indian Museum five neolithic artifacts 
with signs and of these two have been deciphered as giving 
readings which convey some sense W ile the other three 
have only got a mark on each and evidently no clue has 
been found to read them. 
The method adopted to find out the age of the scripts 
being in the main one followed by students of palaeontology, 
i con: 
urfaces and, chiefly on account of this, it is not possible to 
establish with precision in India the different substages into 
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found in (1) Chota-Nagpur and (2) Assam. The Chota-Nagpur 
implement was obtained at Ranchi and it was among the 
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| Journ. Hyderabad Arch. Soc. pp- 56-79, 1917. 
2 Ind. Antiq. May, 1919, pp 57-64. 
3 Cal. Rev. Jan. 1920, pp. 21-39. 
