MISCELIvANEOUS INFOR]\L\TION RELATING TO CO-OPERATION 

 AND ASSOCIATION IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES. 



BRITISH INDIA. 



I. CO OPERATON IX TRAVANXORP: (i). 



The State of Travancore in Southern India adjoins the province of 

 Madras and has an area of 7091 square miles. In 190T the population was 

 2,952,157, having increased b}- 15 per cent, in the foregoing decade. Tra- 

 vancore ranks fourth among native Indian States as regards area and third 

 as regards population. 



Provision for co-operation in Travancore is contained in a regulation 

 of 4 April 1914, and in the rules under Section 42 of this regulation which 

 were issued on 17 November 1915. 



On 8 July 1916 twenty-three co-operative societies had been regis- 

 tered, one of them being a bank which included among its members not only 

 individuals but also societies, and had for its object the financing of the 

 latter. Of the remaining twent^^-two societies two were for production 

 and distribution, one for production only and two for distribution only, 

 while the other seventeen v»'ere credit societies all of which except one w^ere 

 formed on the Raffeisen model and on the basis of unlimited liability. Since 

 all these societies had been registered towards the end of the official year, 

 which begins in the middle of August, only a few had actually started work. 

 The bank, the producing and distributing society, one of the societies for 

 distribution only and seven of the credit societies were however in full 

 working order although they had not yet accomplished much. 



All but one of the credit societies are intenderl to help agriculturists, 

 who seem, by all the evidence yet available, to take advantage of them. 



By Section 4 of the regulation of 4 April 1914 " the liability of a so- 

 ciety, of which a registered society is a member, shall be limited ; the lia- 

 bility of a society, of which the object is the creation of funds to be lent 

 to its members, and of which no member is a register^ society, shall be 



I'l) The facts rc.ijar.liii,ii co oi;craliim in Travancore luue b.in communicated to u-: by 

 M.-. O. Ciovinda I'iilai. R'-iislrar of Cooperative vSocieties in thi.- State. 



