Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- General introduction
- Editorial foreword
- Note to the reader
- 1 FROM THE INDIA OFFICE TO CAMBRIDGE 1906–1913
- 2 THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON INDIAN FINANCE AND CURRENCY 1913–1914
- 3 AN INDIAN STATE BANK
- 4 KEYNES AND THE COMMISSION'S REPORT
- 5 INDIAN EPILOGUE 1919
- List of Documents Reproduced
- Index
2 - THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON INDIAN FINANCE AND CURRENCY 1913–1914
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- General introduction
- Editorial foreword
- Note to the reader
- 1 FROM THE INDIA OFFICE TO CAMBRIDGE 1906–1913
- 2 THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON INDIAN FINANCE AND CURRENCY 1913–1914
- 3 AN INDIAN STATE BANK
- 4 KEYNES AND THE COMMISSION'S REPORT
- 5 INDIAN EPILOGUE 1919
- List of Documents Reproduced
- Index
Summary
Keynes was in Alexandria during the Easter vacation when he received a letter from Sir Thomas Holderness at the India Office dated n March 1913 and marked ‘Private and Confidential’.
Dear Keynes,
You know that a Royal Commission is to be appointed to inquire into certain aspects of the Indian currency system and the part played therein by the India Office.
Would you be willing to be Secretary to it on suitable terms as to remuneration? I imagine that if you should take the appointment, it would mean more or less continuous work from, say, the beginning of April until the end of July. By that time I should hope that the taking of evidence would be finished, and that the Commission would adjourn until the autumn, when a draft report would be put before them.
I think I can say that if you will take the appointment, it would be offered to you.
Perhaps you would like [to] see me about it before deciding.
Yours sincerely
T. W. HOLDERNESSKeynes cabled his reply (he kept the draft worked out on a scrap of hotel writing paper):
Holderness India Office London
Back April 14 sooner if essential Cambridge requires two days weekly until May 22 thereafter free book Indian Currency printing attach importance freedom respecting this proofs with Abrahams writing
Keynes Governorate Alexandria
A sequence of cables from Holderness tells the story.
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- The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes , pp. 97 - 127Publisher: Royal Economic SocietyPrint publication year: 1978
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