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introduction of such institutional representat/on? In the second pla?, if a two-party system does not arise in the country, then in any .case the members of our societies will be and this division will divided on political necessarily find its grounds echo in the councils of the society. This is the more likely to happen as there are not enough men of ability and affairs in the village or in the sub-division to furnish two setm of leaders, one for the economic work and the other for ma? political concerns. The same members will be the leaders of political organizations and of co-operative bodies and their oppositibn will pervade all their work, on whicl?ever side it is performed. (3o-opzratio? and Indust? H?ving dealt with the financial and political prostocts of co-operation we might now examine the place must India of. co-operation be acknowledged has had a mainly worked at in the industrial sphere. It that hitherto co-operation in one-sided development--we have fscilihting rural credit? Bombay, however, has, as was only to be expected from its enterprize, taken the lead in the matter of mill hands' and artisan?' societies, and the Debt Pvedemp?on has been dohig meritorious work. The recent Indus- trial Go?ssion has emp. hasized the need of indus. trial co-oporat/on with reference to small and cottage industries and has recommended that urban banks of the Schulze Delitzsch typo must be given a tr/al for the benefit co-operation of urban for Indian fLF?fJfLnfJ. industrial But the ut?Hty o! progress goes far Had beyond the modest scope thus assigned to it. Sir Horace Plunkett served on the Industrial mi?iOll, aS of indus?t4sl much larger was originally intended, the 'possibilities co-oporation would have been given a place in the Beport. In one sense