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CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT AND THE INTELLIGENTSIA IN A BENGAL DISTRICT, BANKURA: SEARCH FOR ACHIEVING THE ECONOMIC SELF-HELP UNDER THE COLONIAL SWAY.

    1 Author(s):  ABIR LAL BANDYOPADHYAY

Vol -  9, Issue- 3 ,         Page(s) : 74 - 84  (2018 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMST

Abstract

The article examines the performance of cooperative movement in the last three decades before the independence in colonial Bankura. Despite high hopes at the beginning and esteemed contribution of the local intelligentsia the cooperative institutions proved unsustainable due to extreme shortage of capital, unusually high rate of loan default and consequently failed to play a role in rural wellness as promised. The article argues that the seeds of failure were ingrained in the movement as it was used as a tool to the hands of the rural educated bhadroloks and such imposing character of the movement never gave the toiled poor any scope to assimilate themselves with this economic venture.

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  3.   ‘Bankura O Birbhum’: Bibidha Prasanga, Prabasi, Pous 1331 B.S., Bhag 24, Khanda 2, pp. 419-20.
  4.  Prabasi, Shraban 1321 B.S., p. 390.
  5.   Ramananda Chatterjee, ‘the Co-operative Movement’, the Bengal, Bihar & Orissa Co-operative Journal, vol. XII, No 1, 1926, p. 11.
  6.   Gurusaday Dutta, ‘Palli Sangathan’, Bhandar, Magh 1331 B.S., p. 222.
  7.   Ramananda Chatterjee, ‘the Co-operative Movement’, the Bengal, Bihar & Orissa Co-operative Journal, vol. XII, No. 1, 1926, p. 10.
  8.   Jogesh Chandra Roy, ‘Bankurar Patra’, Prabasi, Ashwin 1326, p. 570.
  9.   N. C. Chakrabarty, ‘Some Stray Thoughts on Co-operation in Bengal’, Prof. J. C. Coyajee (ed.), the Bengal, Bihar & Orissa Co-operative Journal, April 1924, p. 307.
  10.  Bankura Lakshmi, 1st Issue, 1329 B.S., p. 54.
  11.   ‘Jaldan’, Prabasi, Shravan 1327 B.S., p. 390.
  12.  Krishi Panjika, 1918-1919, Bankura, The Bankura District Agricultural Association, 1925, pp. 123- 24.
  13.   Achintya Jana, Samabay Andolone Bankura, Bankura, Rarh Academy, 1999, p. 8.
  14.  Bankura Lakshmi, 1330 B.S., p. 2.
  15.  Ibid.
  16.  Krishi Panjika, op. cit., p. 127.
  17.  Ibid , p. 121.
  18.   Ramanuj Kar, ‘Bankura Jelar Bibaran’, Bankura, 1332 B.S.,  p. 105.

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