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Co-operation in India

1919

In view of this and of the keen and steady interest which I have all along taken and still take in the Movement and of the intimate acquaintance with Co-operative Credit and Co-operative Practices generally under all aspects and in the most varied parts of the globe which I have gathered during a series of decades not least so during the long period in which I stood at the head of the Int [...] In the same way that the mahajan is indispensable to the raiyat is the rapacious sweater indispensable to the East End drudge to the heroine of Thomas Hood's Song of the Shirt " and was the American planter indispensable to his negro slave. [...] Both the Famine Commission of xsIox and the Irrigation Commission of 1901-1903 have made a most careful investigation of the working of the system and the Irrigation Commission has embodied in its bulky Report the fullest record extant of its effects a review both of its merits and its defects. [...] The efforts which it has proved necessary to make to induce him to do so remind one of the early labours of the Agricultural Section of the Bank of Egypt—the Section which subsequently was expanded into the Agricultural Bank of Egypt "—whose emissaries literally had in the first years as the Report of our Consul-General shows to stalk about the country with bags of gold coin on their backs wit [...] " It is not perhaps too much to say " so reports the Irrigation Commission " that the history in the fluctuations of the amounts of takavi taken up in any province is the history of the interest taken in the matter by the individual officers who were quick to apprhend the kind of improvements which the agriculture of their district required and the value of takavi as a stimulus to the executi
commerce industry
Pages
359
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142813
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vii Henry Wolff view
The Need of Co-Operative Credit in India
1-40 unknown view
The Coming of Co-Operative Credit
41-70 unknown view
The Result
71-96 unknown view
Precedents Good and Bad
97-133 unknown view
The Village Society
134-182 unknown view
Joining Forces
183-220 unknown view
Non-Agricultural Credit
221-237 unknown view
Grain Banks
238-247 unknown view
The Wider Outlook
248-290 unknown view
The Future
291-336 unknown view
Postscript
337-346 unknown view
Index
347-352 unknown view

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