Part I : Co-operation and Association 



BRITISH INDIA. 



PROGRESS OF AGRICUIvTURAL CO-OPERATION 

 IN 1914-1915. 



SOURCE : 

 The Madras Bulletin of Cooperation, Vol. VII, No. 2, Madras, December 191 5. 



§ I. Bengal. 



The general progress of co-operative societies in Bengal may be ga- 

 thered from the following statement : 



(i) I rupee = is. ^d. 



Central Societies. — At the end of the year 1914-1915 thefe were tliirty- 

 eight central banks and eight supervising unions in Bengal. The share 

 capital of the central banks had increa.sed from Rs. 383,555 to Rs. 4,89,548 

 and their reserve fund from Rs. 35,658 to Rs. 75,072. The combined 



