Development Retold Voices from the Field

One of the many initiatives that were born out of the turbulence of India's freedom movement was the Indian Cooperative Union (ICU). Founded in 1948. under the leadership of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya, the institution undertook several pathbreaking ventures in its attempt to build a new India, all the while advocating the cooperative principles and unshaken in its belief that it was only people-led development that could usher in the nation's new era. Among the ICU's many endeavours were the sett