ABSTRACT
Though Marshall wrote nothing specific on India, his interest in its economic and social problems and history was long-lasting and profound. The Catalogue of the Marshall Library of Economics, compiled by Mary Marshall in 1927, lists 44 books and more than 50 official documents specifically devoted to India, almost all of which belonged to her husband,1 and the number of journal articles bound in Marshall’s miscellaneous volumes which directly refer to India amounts to 63 titles.2 Most of these publications deal with Indian currency and finance and are somehow related to the Indian Currency Committee of 1899, but many items are of more general interest or deal with other subjects (education, women’s conditions, transport, the factory system, etc.). Moreover, Marshall seems to have been used to work on Indian issues, as attested by Keynes’s well known obituary: ‘[Marshall] was pleased with his detailed realistic inquiries into Indian problems, and the great rolls of Indian charts, not all of which were published, were always at hand as part of the furniture of his study’ (Pigou 1925:53).
