In addition to the work of the regular atlas staff at Minnesota, the Project re- ceived much assistance from the Departments of Geography, South Asian Studies, and History. Before the receipt of the first USOE award, secretarial assistance was provided, as necessary, through the Departments of Geography and History, and after August 1972 all secretarial help was provided through the Department of Geography. Elaine Chadwick, Arlette Lindbergh, Margaret Rasmussen, and es- pecially Carol Atchley are hereby thanked for their unfailing assistance. Timely assistance from the department's cartography laboratory, skillfully rendered by Sandra Haas, its director, and Su-chang Wang, has also been most helpful and is warmly appreciated.

Colleagues in the Departments of History and South Asian Studies who criti- cally read portions of the atlas manuscript and offered valuable suggestions for its improvement include Stephen Blake, Abid Ghazi, and David Lelyveld. Fred- erick Asher, Muhammad Abdur Rahman Barker, Samuel Burke, William Ma- landra, and other colleagues gave freely of their expertise on numerous occasions when advice or specific substantive assistance was needed. Samuel Burke, an old and dear friend of the Ames family, took an interest in the atlas project from its inception, helping to establish the Ames Fellowship in the Historical Cartography of South Asia and drawing often upon his wide circle of former associates and friends in Pakistan when help from that country proved necessary. For their con- crete assistance and for the intellectual stimulation they provided, all these schol- ars have earned the gratitude of the atlas staff.

Appreciative note must also be taken of the excellent cooperation of Henry Scholberg, Jack Parker, and Mai Treude, chief librarians, respectively, of the Ames Library of South Asia, the James Ford Bell Library, and the Map Library of the University of Minnesota and their many assistants over the period of the Project's existence, among whom Ella Baldwin, Emmett Davis, Annette Jones, Wendy Lougee, Patricia Moore, Mary Rush (now Ishaq), and Carol Urness are most worthy of mention. The forbearance of the Ames staff in particular in deal- ing with certain staff members (not excluding the editor) whose library habits were anything but exemplary calls for admiration and wonder.

Among those at Minnesota thanks are due, finally, to John Ervin, director of the University of Minnesota Press, and to his associates for much useful counsel in the early years of the Project and for continued interest and occasional advice thereafter.

Along with the Project's own staff, the group most vital to bringing the atlas to completion was the dedicated, incredibly painstaking and talented staff of the Cartographic Department of the American Geographical Society of New York, with whom we have enjoyed nearly a decade of close collaboration. Under the general guidance of Miklos Pinther and the day-to-day supervision of Mrs. Luba Prokop, more than a dozen cartographers saw to the execution of the final drafts of all the atlas plates. Mr. Pinther also edited all the atlas plates from a carto- graphic perspective and, along with the editor, twice edited the set of color proofs prepared by Rand McNally. The AGS cartographic staff who worked on the atlas included the following:

Harris Graber, 1 year

Susan Grande, ½ year

Miklos Pinther, 1½ years

Robin Popovich, ½ year

Luba Prokop, 5½ years

Mai-Brit Rimar, ½ year

Lidia Romash, 4 years

Attila Sioreti, 2½ years

Norman Swanston (deceased), ½ year

Andrew Tomko, ½ year

Blanca Uzcategui, 2 years

Carroll Voegtly, ½ year

Bernard H. Wagner, 1 year

In addition to these cartographers, thanks are due to Shannon McCune, under * The AGS man-year is figured at 1,575 man-hours. Staff working during summers only are not listed. whose directorship the society and the university agreed upon the terms under which final drafting was to be accomplished, and to Dr. McCune's successors Jo- seph B. Lakovitch, Burton Atkinson, Robert B. McNee, and Sarah K. Myers, all of whom manifested considerable interest in the Project. Particularly appreciated is the willingness of the society to complete its part of the Project despite the fact that in doing so it incurred a substantial financial loss owing to underestimation of the requisite labor input, rapid inflation in the cost of cartographic labor and ma- terials over the years since cost estimates were made, and other factors beyond its control. Yet in carrying out its trust the society never lowered its high cartographic standards or sought to cut back on the work to be performed.

The preparation and correction of proof copies of the atlas maps by Rand McNally and Company entailed close cooperation between that firm, the Univer- sity of Chicago Press, and the editor. Working with the genial and competent Adolph Bravi, who supervised the preparation of the final press-ready product, proved to be a most pleasant and instructive experience.

To the editorial and production staff of the University of Chicago Press, and to Allen Fitchen, Cameron Poulter, and Alice Swayne in particular, we offer our gratitude and contrition—the former for the careful execution of their roles in bringing out the atlas, the latter for our own tardiness in getting the work to them. Their patience and understanding during the long period between the promise and delivery of that work are more than we deserve. To Haven O'More and the Institute of Traditional Science, to the Jerome Foundation of Saint Paul, and to the Ford Foundation we extend our deep appreciation for their having underwritten, through generous grants to the University of Chicago Press, a large part of the publication costs of the atlas, enabling it thereby to offer the volume to the public at a much lower cost than would otherwise have been possible.

Since final composition of the preceding acknowledgments, we have been in- formed of additional financial support for publication from the International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies, affiliated with the United Na- tions Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. We wish to record here our gratitude for the generous assistance of that body.

Finally, it is in order that we recognize that the original source of the major por- tion of the financial support for the atlas are the taxpayers of the United States and more especially of the State of Minnesota. While it would be folly to assume that all these citizens would regard support for our effort as a proper use of the public purse, it is nevertheless a fact that their elected representatives in the Fed- eral Congress and the State Legislature created the principal sponsoring agencies for the Project and gave to those agencies the fiscal resources on which we were able to draw so generously. Most of the citizens of whom we now speak will never so much as learn of this atlas, fewer still will ever see it, and only a small minority will actually use it. Yet it is our hope that the atlas will in some modest measure serve them all. If, as we trust it will, it helps earn for South Asia the global recog- nition it deserves and helps gain for that region the admiration its contributions to world civilization so clearly merit; and if, concomitantly, Americans and other peoples are able to reach a more informed and sympathetic comprehension of South Asia, we shall feel that we have served the people well.

It may also be noted that now that this atlas is finally available in published form, it should make an important contribution to the work of the Indo-U.S. Sub- commission on Education and Culture (established in 1974). The central purpose of this special bilateral subcommission is to increase mutual understanding be- tween the United States and India. To the extent that the peoples of South Asia take cognizance of the fact that the elected representatives of the citizens of the United States, actively assisted by the staffs of the federal agencies concerned, thought enough of South Asia to fund and sustain a Project as difficult and costly as that which created this atlas, the gulf of misunderstanding that at times looms so large between South Asians and Americans may be significantly narrowed. Should that fervently desired end be attained, we shall feel that our great debt to the American public will have been honorably discharged.

Cognizant though he is of his debt to the citizens of the United States, the writer affirms also his citizenship in a larger and more enduring global community, the Family of Man. The achievements of all men throughout the ages form the com- mon heritage of Mankind. The destinies of all are inextricably intertwined. The past and the present belong to the future. This atlas, born of South Asia's past and created by the cooperative labors of South Asians, Americans, and others, is a part of our bequest to future generations everywhere.

JOSEPH E. SCHWARTZBERG