India's silent revolution . l effortswere made to introduce the scheme prior to the faminesof 1898 to 1900. The Famine Commission of 1901 rec-ommended such action, and the Cooperative Credit So-cieties Act was put through in 1904. Any group of tenpersons living in the same village may start a society forthe purpose of raising funds from the deposits of mem-bers and distributing them by loans to members. As theschoolmaster or accountant is usually the only literateperson in a village, he is generally secretary of the 1916 The Servants of India organized training classesfor secretarie
India's silent revolution . l effortswere made to introduce the scheme prior to the faminesof 1898 to 1900. The Famine Commission of 1901 rec-ommended such action, and the Cooperative Credit So-cieties Act was put through in 1904. Any group of tenpersons living in the same village may start a society forthe purpose of raising funds from the deposits of mem-bers and distributing them by loans to members. As theschoolmaster or accountant is usually the only literateperson in a village, he is generally secretary of the 1916 The Servants of India organized training classesfor secretaries in Bombay. Thirty selected secretaries at-tended, their expenses paid by Government. Theseclasses, in addition to training men in the actual work ofkeeping books and granting loans, attempt to kindle inthem a sense of the constructive possibilities of their posi-tion. They inspire these men, scattered through all theremote villages of India, to serve as centers of stimulusand progress in each community. They teach them to. The American tractor breaks ground for the new day Would you know what to do with the plow and dices of a tractorin a flax field in India? FIELDS AND FACTORIES 55 give elementary lessons in sanitation, scientific farming,the use of simple machinery, and especially they urge themen to impress their people with the value of educationitself. The agricultural societies make loans for the purchaseof stock, fodder, seed, manure, the sinking of wells, and,in emergencies, for personal maintenance. There arealso non-agricultural societies for hand-loom weavers,milkmen, dyers, basket and brass workers, and housingsocieties. In June, 1915, there were 17,327 societies,with a total of 825,000 members, and a working capitalof nearly thirty million dollars.^ There have been nowidespread famines since the establishment of these so-cieties, and it is hoped that they will serve as anotherpreventive measure. Even the war did not give themany appreciable jolt. Deposits fell of
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