BRITISH INDIA. 



CO-OPERATIVE CREDIT IN INDIA IN 1911-12. 



orFlCIAIv SOURCES: 



Statement ExraBiTiNG the Moral and IVLvterial Progress and Condition of In-dia during 



THE Ye.\r 1911-12. lyOnrlon : Eyre and Spottiswoode, 191 3. 

 Statements SHo\^^NG Progress of the Co-oper.\tive Movement in India during the 



YEAR I9II-12. 



Annual Reports on the Working of Co-operative Credit Societies for the 

 Year 1911-12, in : 



Madras Presidency. Madras : Govemment Press, 191 2. 



Bombay Presidency including Sind. Bombay: Government Central Press, 1912. 



Bengal. Calcutta : The Bengal Secretariat Book Depot, 1912. 



BuRM.\. Rangoon: Office of the Superintendent Government Printing, 1912. 



Punjab. I^ahore : I'unjab Government Press, 1912. 



United Provinces of Agra and Oudu. Allahabad : Government Press, 1912. 



Central Provinces and Behar. Nagpur : Government Press, 1912. 



Ass.'iM. Shillong : Assam Secretariat Printing Office, 1912. 



CooRG. Mercara : Coorg District Press, 1912. 



Mysore. Bangalore : The Govemment Press, 1912. 

 Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of Registrars of Co-operative Credit Societies. 

 Simla. Govemment Press, 1912. 



/. — GENERAL PROGRESS OF AGRICULTURAL CO-OPERATION. 



§ I. CO-OPKRATIVE CREDIT SOCIETIES FROM I904 TO I912. 



The development of co-operation in India may be said to begin with 

 the passing of the Co-operative Credit Societies Act in 1904, and the 

 repeal of that Act, in June, 1912, marks the close of one period in the 

 history of the movement. 



Progress must be pronounced to have been extraordinarily rapid, even 

 when allowance is made for the fact that India has profited by the experience 

 of other countries. In 1905, when the Act had been a year in operation, 



For previous articles on Co-operative Credit in India see the Bulletin of Economic 

 and Social InielUgence, December, 1910, December 191 2 and March, 1913. 



