ABSTRACT
In 1913 a "Co-operative Society for Purchase and Sale" was formed, which dealt in agricultural implements, fodder, cotton seed, and leather for the making of buckets for water-lifts. The seed of Co-operation was shown on relatively good ground, as well as being well planted and watered, and this may be attributed to the fact that its social tradition was exceptional and there was much less social and economic inequality than in most South Indian villages. When in the seventeenth century Francis Day made his report that Madras was the best place for securing "paintings", Conjiveram was probably the place where those paintings were chiefly produced. When the Co-operative Societies Act of 1904 was passed, granting various advantages to registered societies, the Triplicane Society applied for registration, but as the Act contemplated Co-operative Banks only, it was difficult to bring it within the scope of the Act.
