ABSTRACT
Various methods were adopted in different parts of India, the extent of state intervention of supervision was not the same, the stress on different aspects of cooperation varied a good deal but a vast number of societies was established almost everywhere. Taking a series of supposed typical villages in almost every part of India, the Rural Credit Survey has collected data which will serve as raw material for many a long day. Nobody will ever read the three mighty volumes which have been published, but the second of these which contains the report and conclusions is undoubtedly the most thorough-going examination of the economics of rural life in India that has ever been made. In almost every province of India, after the passage of the first Cooperative Societies Act, there was a vigorous effort to found and multiply rural cooperative credit societies, and the effort has gone on ever since.
