[Letter to B Shiva Rao]

Summary

A brief typewritten letter from C. Rajagopalachari at 60, Bazlullah Road, Tyagarayanagar, Madras-17 to B. Shiva Rao at 85, Lodi Estate, New Delhi-3, dated 20 February 1963. Rajaji acknowledges a letter Shiva Rao wrote on 19 February and thanks him for what he calls “opportune thoughts,” affirming that he has been “thinking the same way.”

The substance of the reply is a rueful demurral on financial grounds: whatever course of action Shiva Rao proposed, Rajaji reports that “our financial hurdles are greater than ever.” The rendered sheet carries the archival number 1061, is annotated “(Copy)” before the signature, and closes “Yours affectionately.” The specifics of the shared plan are not stated in the letter itself.

Key points

• Personal letter from C. Rajagopalachari (Madras) to B. Shiva Rao (New Delhi), dated 20 February 1963.
• Written on Rajaji’s personal letterhead: 60, Bazlullah Road, Tyagarayanagar, Madras-17.
• Replies to a letter Shiva Rao had sent the previous day, 19 February 1963.
• Rajaji agrees with Shiva Rao’s suggestion, saying he has been “thinking the same way.”
• Declines or defers action on the ground that “our financial hurdles are greater than ever.”
• Marked “(Copy)” beside the signature — this is the retained file copy, not the posted original.
• The letter does not name the underlying proposal or venture that Shiva Rao had suggested.