Readership: Scholars and students of Indo-Iranian languages and culture; archaeology and early history of India, Afghanistan, and Central Asia; early Buddhism
Edited by Nicholas Sims-Williams, Professor of Iranian and Central Asian Studies, SOAS; and Fellow of the British Academy
"Sir Harold would no doubt have delighted in reading every article within this excellent collection." - Almut Hintze, Springer Scientce and Business Media
Ronald E. Emmerick: Hunting the hapax: Sir Harold W. Bailey (1899-1996) J.K. Mallory: Archaeological Models and Asian Indo-Europeans Asko Parpola: The Nuristani Languages Richard Salomon: Gandhari and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages in the Light of Newly-Discovered Karosthi Manuscripts K.R. Norman: Pali and the Languages of Early Buddhism O Von Hin"uber: The Vocabulary of Buddhist Sanskrit: Problems and Perspectives Jost Gippert: The Avestan Language and its Problems Alexander Lubotsky: Scythian Elements in Old Iranian Frantz Grenet: Regional Interaction in Central Asia and Northwest India in the Kidarite and Hephthalite Periods Nicholas Sims-Williams: Ancient Afghanistan and its Invaders: Linguistic Evidence from the Bactrian Documents and Inscriptions Georges-Jean Pinault: Tocharian and Indo-Iranian: Relations between Two Linguistic Areas Ilya Gershevitch: Professor Sir Harold Bailey: An Appreciation
