Indian Citizen Services. The Cooperative Movement in India

Summary

Credit is the simplest form of co-operation and it was necessary to familiarise the people with the principles of coperation through the most simple form when they had lost all ideas of associated action chiefly owing to the failure of early English legislators to understand the economic and social structure of the country resulting in the substituting of a regime of economic individualism for [...] Before describing the origin and development of co-operation in India we would attempt to give here a brief survey of the growth of the co-operative movement in some of the chief countries of the world. [...] The essential features of the Raiffeisen rural bank.— Before describing the essential features of the Raiffeisen system we should have a full grasp of the meaning of personal credit which lies at the basis of the Raiffeisen system. [...] In a society with unlimited liability the members over and above the liability to pay in full the nominal value of the obligatory single share—for only one share may be taken by each member—undertake liability for the engagements of the society to its creditors directly to the extent of the whole of their property ; and this liability is individual and collective. [...] The committee and the board are in the first instance legally responsible to the society to the full extent of their property when losses occur as the result of their not exercising the prudence of ordinary business men" in the affairs of the society ; and finally there is the further safeguard of the audit which must be carried out at least oncwithin every two years.

Title	Pages	Author/Editor
Preface	i-xxi	Panchanandas Mokherji	View
Chapter I. A Brief Survey of the Origin and Development of Co-Operation	1-20	unknown	View
Chapter II. Recent Developments of Co-Operation in The West	21-55	unknown	View
Chapter III. Rural Indebtedness in India	56-60	unknown	View
Chapter IV. Preliminary Experiments	61-66	unknown	View
Chapter V. The Co-Operative Credit Societies Act of 1904	67-72	unknown	View
Chapter VI. Progress of Co-Operation in India Since 1904: The Passing of the Co-Operative Societies Act 1912	73-78	unknown	View
Chapter VII. Agricultural Credit Co-Operative Societies	79-98	unknown	View
Chapter VIII. Co-Operative Grain Banks or Dharmagolas	99-113	unknown	View
Chapter IX. Obstacles in The Way of Rural Co-Operation in India	114-119	unknown	View
Chapter X. Effects of the Rural Credit Co-Operative Movement in India	120-128	unknown	View
Chapter XI. Non-Agricultural Credit Co-Operative Societies	129-157	unknown	View
Chapter XII. Agricultural Non-Credit Co-Operative Societies	158-229	unknown	View
Chapter XIII. Co-Operation and Agriculture	230-235	unknown	View
Chapter XIV. Non-Agricultural Non-Credit Co-Operative Societies	236-287	unknown	View
Chapter XV. Guaranteeing Unions in Burma	288-297	unknown	View
Chapter XVI. Higher Co-Operative Financing Agencies: Central Co-Operative Banks	298-306	unknown	View
Chapter XVII.Higher Co-Operative Financing Agencies: Provincial Co-Operative Banks	307-321	unknown	View
Chapter XVIII.Non-Co-Operative Agricultural Banks Vs. Co-Operative Credit Institutions	322-337	unknown	View
Chapter XIX. Co-Operation and Public Aid	338-347	unknown	View
Chapter XX. The Law of Co-Operation in India: The Co-Operative Societies Act: Act No. II of 1912	348-392	unknown	View
Chapter XXI.Conclusion	393-453	unknown	View
Index	i-viii	unknown	View
Indian Citizen Series	i-viii	unknown	View

Indian Citizen Services. The Cooperative Movement in India

Summary

Tags

Thacker, Spink & Co.

Topics

History