First, my apology for accidentally misspelling your name earlier. I have now gone quickly through your long article as a whole and carefully through the first ten pages. I attach the copy you sent me, with some brief notes on these first pages. My general conclusion is that I think your paper does not fit well in an Indic journal. It is, I think, more appropriate to a journal such as the Journal of India-European Studies. The paper does not concern Indic philology proper in that it is not a textual study. As an outline of phonology, it does say much about India-Iranian but not much exclusively about Indic, although attention is paid to the issue of how retroflex consonants developed and spread. For these reasons, I feel the paper ill fits the American Journal of Indic Studies. I hope you may have it published elsewhere and I wish you well in this endeavor. I also look forward possibly to meeting you again before long.