Excerpt from Co-Operation in India
My chapter "The Coming of Co-operative Credit" will show in what close touch I have stood with the Co-operative Movement in India from the very outset, that is, from the time when, about twenty-five years ago, Sir Charles Bernard on behalf of the India Office first consulted me about the character to be given to Indian legislation upon the subject.
Thanks to the great kindness of the India Office, the Government of India, and the-various Registrars of Cooperative Societies, past and present, who have kept me fully informed upon even the smallest details of the progress made, and for which I now express my heartfelt gratitude, I am happy that I am able to say that I have been permitted and enabled to maintain the same close touch up to the present moment. I beg to thank the Registrars, more in particular, not only for the full information freely given, but also for the forbearance with which they have accepted occasional criticism.
My hope to render relations still more intimate by a visit to India, on the invitation, some years ago, of various gentlemen connected with the movement, above all, of my friend Mr. W. R. Gourlay, the first Registrar in Bengal, was, to my regret, disappointed by an intervening force majeure.
But, although I cannot, of course, without personal acquaintance, presume to speak about local conditions, I believe that I Know quite enough of the movement from a purely co-operative point of view to be able to form a judgment upon its merits and its perils, as it stands now.
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