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ACI(NOWLEDGMENTS Before proceeding to some special acknowledgments, I wish to express my deep gratitude to a large number of professional and personal friends to whom I am indebted for their many and diverse contributions to this proj ect: W. Sidney Allen, Anand Amaladass, S. J., Abhijit Basu, Bettina Baumer, David W. Beach, Judith Becker, Anil Bihari Beohar, Anil K Bhandari, Ravi and Rita Bhatia, John Blacking, John Clough, Eliot Deutsch, Jack Douthett, Joan L. Erdman, Allen Forte, Robert Gauldin, Edwin Gerow, Robert Gjer dingen, William Jackson, S. S. Janaki, Jonathan Katz, Jonathan D. Kramer, Mukund Lath, J. R. Marr, Prithwish Neogy, Bruno Nettl, Claude V. Palisca, Raimundo Panikkar, T. S. Parthasarathy, L. E. R. Picken, Sheldon Pollock, Prema and William Popkin, Harold S. Powers, K Kunjunni Raja, Anthony Seeger, S. Seetha, Steven Slawek, Barbara B. Smith, Ron Smith, Ruth M. Stone, Eero Tarasti, Ricardo Trimillos, Allen Trubitt, and Kapila Vatsyayan. Several agencies and institutions have been of major help in funding vari ous periods of research in India. I am particularly grateful to the American Institute of Indian Studies and to P. R. Mehendiratta for two senior research fellowships and friendly support while I was in India. I wish also to acknowl edge the kind assistance of V. R. Nambiar and P. Venugopala Rao. Indiana University has provided smaller amounts of research support when they were most needed, and I am grateful to John V. Lombardi, Morton Lowen grub, Alex Rabinowitch, Henry Remak, Charles H. Webb, and Albert Wert heim for their advice and support. I am also deeply grateful for the academic hospitality extended to me. at Banaras Hindu University, the Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute, the University of Madras, the Madras Music Acad emy, and the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. I am particularly grateful to a few special people whose contributions have been vital to this project: to the late B. C. Deva, for a friendly reception and a chance remark that put my first period of research in India into an entirely new perspective; to J. T. Fraser, who has been my guide in the study of time and a supportive witness to numerous important events in my life; to Wayne Howard, for invaluable advice and information; to Gayathri Kasse baum, for her patient instruction in South Indian singing; to Walter Maurer, XIII XIV ACKNOWLEDGMENTS for many years of expert instruction in Sanskrit and for his scholarly example; to the late V. Raghavan, both for his scholarly contributions (which have been of the utmost importance to this study) and for his generous invest ment of time; to N. Ramanathan, for a continuing friendship and scholarly collaboration; to Prem Lata Sharma, for her gracious academic hospitality and for numerous acts of kindness and bits of helpful information over the years; to the late R. K Shringy, for friendly advice and for his dedicated la bors on a massive translation project; and to D. R. Widdess, for sharing some of his research with me in advance of publication and for many pieces of information and interpretation. Thanks too to the many friendly and helpful people at the University of Chicago Press for their professional expertise in translating my manuscript into book form. And finally, thanks must go to my two children, Alison and Jim, whose lives have been disrupted as a result of this project but who have given me constant love and support; to two furry friends, who saw to it that I never lacked for companionship; and til min elskede Unni, for reasons that she alone knows. .