The ryotwari system was a land revenue system in British India introduced by Thomas Munro, which allowed the government to deal directly with the cultivator ('ryot') for revenue collection and gave the peasant freedom to cede or acquire new land for cultivation.[1][2]
The ryotwari system was a land revenue system in British India introduced by Thomas Munro, which allowed the government to deal directly with the cultivator...
prevalent in India during the British rule: the ryotwari system and the mahalwari system. The ryotwari system was known as "severality villages" and based...
other two systems were the Permanent Settlement in Bengal in 1793 and the Ryotwari system in 1820. It covered the states of Punjab, Awadh and Agra, parts...
the nineteenth century. These changes include the introduction of the ryotwari system and other attempts to maximize revenue through exploiting lower-status...
permanent settlement, it was eventually discarded. In its place came the "Ryotwari Settlement" implemented by Sir Thomas Munro between 1820 and 1827. According...
given impetus by British policies that established both zamindari and ryotwari systems of land revenue administration. Colonial efforts toward efficient...
Charter Act of 1833. The other two systems prevalent in India were the Ryotwari System and the Mahalwari System. Many argue that the settlement and its...
Failure of the summer monsoons and administrative shortcomings of the Ryotwari system resulted in two severe famines in the Madras Presidency, the Great...
Thomas Munro, who would later become Governor of Madras, promoted the ryotwari system or the Munro system, in which the government settled land-revenue...
them in place of their quit rent led indirectly to the implementation of Ryotwari system. Now the Ryots could not rely upon slaves for their agricultural...
Failure of the summer monsoons and administrative shortcomings of the Ryotwari system resulted in two severe famines in the Madras Presidency, the Great...
they were not so in large numbers and the British administrators used the ryotwari (cultivator) method of collection, which involved selecting certain farmers...
Savaras living in 106 villages. The greater part of Taluk was held on Ryotwari and belongs to Rajas of Bobbili and Vizianagram. It was within Ganjam District...
tenure resulting from charitable gifts. The vellan-vagai were the ordinary ryotwari village of modern times, having direct relations with the government and...
three systems of land proprietorship existed: zamindaris, inams and ryotwaris. In 1911, zamindari estates covered 26 million acres (110,000 km2) and...
or magulzari), village-based (mahalwari, narva) and individually based (ryotwari). In Gujarat, the British administrators found that all three systems existed...
Madras Presidency, ca. 1880. Two-thirds of the presidency fell under the Ryotwari system. The Company inherited a revenue collection system from the Mughals...
Failure of the summer monsoons and administrative shortcomings of the Ryotwari system resulted in a severe famine in the Madras Presidency during 1876–1877...
were temporarily settled, 2,720 were under the government, and 23 were ryotwari tracts. The land-tax on all these was 37,541,188 Rupees, with arrears being...
million acres of agricultural land to poor farmers. He popularized the Ryotwari system (Kavula dhari chattam), and abolishment of bonded labor. He worked...
extract revenue through private agents. The diwani tenures resembled the ryotwari system introduced by the British in other parts of the country. It had...
and overtaxation. In rural Gujarat, the land tax system was based on the ryotwari system. In this system the agricultural land was assigned a quality of...
The Gudalur Janmam Estates (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) of 1969 was an act aiming at vesting of agricultural land to the cultivators and was...
either with pensions or assimilation of their estates and established the Ryotwari system – land revenue collected directly from the tiller of the soil. 1808...
nineteenth century. Those changes, which included the introduction of the ryotwari system and other attempts to maximize revenue, impacted lower-status cultivators...
September 1949, under the Madras Estates (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1948 (Act 26 of 1948). They belonged to the Velugoti Dynasty of the...