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PREFACE ix
parts of it to be visited by me more than once. This circumstance has made it advisable to order my account of the chief phases in my exploratory work according to the localities which witnessed them, instead of adhering to strict chronological sequence.
The results of those expeditions, extending altogether
over close on seven years, could not have been achieved had I not from their start, and all through the years which the study and record of the results claimed, enjoyed very willing and effective help from many sides. Preceding publications have afforded me welcome opportunities to acknowledge these manifold obligations in detail. Here I must be content with the briefest record of gratitude.
To the enlightened support of the Indian Government,
which I was privileged to serve first in its Educational Service and later in its Archaeological Survey, I owe my largest debt for requisite freedom and means to carry out my chosen tasks. The authorities of the British Museum, besides providing a share in the cost of my second expedition, gave
very valuable help by granting accommodation for the arrangement and study of the antiquities brought back from all my journeys and allowing expert scholars on their staff to aid in these tasks.
On the geographical side I feel greatly indebted to the Survey of India, which provided me in the field with well-trained and hard-working Indian Surveyors and at considerable expense published the results of the topographical surveys, carried out by them under my direction and with
aI my assistance, in successive large series of maps. In the
~Il same direction the Council of the Royal Geographical
Society has at all times accorded me generous help and
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