Jalandhar’s co-operative banks: Icons of peasant struggles and British-era reforms

Amidst the fervent peasant movements of the 1920s and 1930s in Doaba, Jalandhar emerged as a significant epicenter for the agrarian struggle in pre-Independence India. It was during this period of unrest that the establishment of co-operative banks in the region marked a pivotal moment in the quest for agricultural reforms—reforms which were driven by […]