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The Place of the “Cooperative” in the Agrarian History of India, c. 1900–1970

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Nikolay Kamenov (nkamenov@gmail.com) holds a doctorate in global history from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
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Abstract

Cooperatives are a promising link that can coalesce subdisciplines such as agrarian, labor, economic, and social history. This article reassesses the significance of cooperatives in the agrarian and social history of South Asia. It provides a broad sketch of the major historical developments—legal, economic, and social—in India up to 1970, emphasizing the continuity between the colonial and postcolonial periods in terms of state engagement with cooperatives. The article goes on to discuss the existing historiography regarding the cooperative movement on the subcontinent, arguing for the substitution of the prevailing notion of failure with a more historically grounded and nuanced approach that takes into consideration the broader economic context, as well as social stratification and inequality. Finally, some promising avenues—including, but not limited to, organizational economics, bottom-up social and cultural history, and global history—are suggested for the future historiography of cooperatives in South Asia.

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agrarianbankcapitalcolonialcooperativecrediteconomicsfinanceIndiaSouth Asia
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 79 , Issue 1 , February 2020 , pp. 103 - 128
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Indian Famine Commission. 1901. Report. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government.Google Scholar
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Islam, M. Mufakharul. 1978. Bengal Agriculture, 1920–1946: A Quantitative Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Jakhar, Bal Ram, and Dwivedi, R. C., eds. 2012. Cooperative Development in Independent India (December 1947 – May 2012). New Delhi: Center for Promotion of Cooperativism.Google Scholar
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Madan, Gurmukh Ram. 2007. Co-operative Movement in India: A Critical Appraisal. New Delhi: Mittal Publications.Google Scholar
Manikumar, K. A. 2003. A Colonial Economy in the Great Depression: Madras (1929–1937). Chennai: Orient Longman.Google Scholar
Mathur, B. S. 1971. Co-operation in India: A Critical Analysis of the Co-operative Movement in India's Planned Economy. Agra: Sahitya bhawan.Google Scholar
Mohapatra, Prabhu Prasad. 1990. “Land and Credit Market in Chotanagpur, 1880–1950.” Studies in History 6(2):163–203.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nicholson, Frederick Augustus. 1895. Report Regarding the Possibility of Introducing Land and Agricultural Banks into the Madras Presidency, Vol. I. Madras: Superintendent of the Government Press.Google Scholar
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Patel, Kiran. 2016. The New Deal: A Global History. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Punjab Government. 1905. Annual Report on the Working of Co-operative Credit Societies in the Punjab for the Year Ending 31st March 1905. Lahore: Punjab Government Press.Google Scholar
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Reserve Bank of India. 1958. Review of the Co-operative Movement in India, 1954–6. Bombay: Examiner Press.Google Scholar
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Rhodes, Rita. 1995. The International Co-operative Alliance during War and Peace, 1910–1950. Geneva: International Co-operative Alliance Publications.Google Scholar
Rhodes, Rita. 2012. Empire and Co-operation: How the British Empire Used Co-operatives in Its Development Strategies, 1900–1970. Edinburgh: John Donald.Google Scholar
Robb, Peter. 1988. “Bihar, the Colonial State and Agricultural Development in India, 1880–1920.” Indian Economic & Social History Review 25(2):205–35.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Robert, Bruce L. Jr. 1979. “Agricultural Credit Cooperatives in Madras, 1893–1937: Rural Development and Agrarian Politics in Pre-independence India.” Indian Economic & Social History Review 16(2):163–84.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rothermund, Dietmar. 1992. India in the Great Depression, 1929–1939. New Delhi: Manohar Publications.Google Scholar
Royal Commission on Agriculture in India. 1927. Evidence Taken in the Bombay Presidency, Volume II, Part I. Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch.Google Scholar
Royal Commission on Agriculture in India. 1928a. Abridged Report. Bombay: Government Central Press.Google Scholar
Royal Commission on Agriculture in India. 1928b. Report. Bombay: Government Central Press.Google Scholar
Satyanarayana, N., Hasan, Badrul, and Singh, Tejpal, eds. 2018. Indian Cooperative Movement: A Statistical Profile. 15th ed.New Delhi: National Cooperative Union of India. https://ncui.coop/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Statistical_Profile_2018.pdf (accessed July 14, 2019).Google Scholar
Scholten, Bruce A. 2010. India's White Revolution: Operation Flood, Food Aid and Development. London: I.B. Tauris.Google Scholar
Stokes, Eric. 1978. The Peasant and the Raj: Studies in Agrarian Society and Peasant Rebellion in Colonial India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Strickland, Claude F. 1933. Co-operation for Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sundar, Aparna, and Sundar, Nandini. 2014. “The Habits of the Political Heart: Recovering Politics from Governmentality.” In Re-framing Democracy and Agency in India: Interrogating Political Society, ed. Gudavarthy, Ajay, 269–88. London: Anthem Press.Google Scholar
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