Introduction Iravatham Mahadevan is a National Fellow of the Indian Council of Historical Research, and has been working on the Indus script for over 40 years. His publications include The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables (1977). A Tamil speaker, he has used historical linguistics and statistical studies to examine the Dravidian components in Vedi… >
A wide-ranging interview with Iravatham Mahadevan [1930-2018] home on January 17, 1998 with Omar Khan. The interview, held at Mr. Mahadevan's home in Chennai lasted nearly two hours and covered the Brahmi script, the cult object, various signs, his response to Asko Parpola's work. A reflection on a decades-long pursuit of the key to Indus writing by the most important Indi… >
It was a warm and humid afternoon in August 1995. I was feeling tired and rather sleepy after a hard day's work in the library of the Directorate of Epigraphy at Mysore, where I was collecting material for my forthcoming book on Early Tamil Palaeography. I was also interested in looking at the earliest Kannada and Telugu inscriptions to explore whether they have any similariti… >
