This book being the first critical assessment of all significant attempts at decipherment of the Indus script and technicalities involved in the models, explains how a breakthrough in decipherment has been achieved as a sequel to scientific analysis. It has highlighted the progress made in decoding the Indus people. The structural analysis of the Indus script not only meets this desideratum but also throws new light on the different approaches to the problems. It has cleared the mystery of the so-called undecipherable script and brought together all the ramifications of analysis and interpretation by various scholars and examined objectively.

The stages of development in identification of basic signs of the Indus script has been explained vividly with adequate analytical charts and examples and the languages as old Indo-Aryan in comparison with those of a known script. It has rendered signal service to the scholarly world by providing basic data needed for understanding the intricacies of a mixed writing of bygone days.