state whether the statement is true or false:- 1. Ryots were the cultivators of land and paid revenue to company.
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true
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ryots were the cultivators of land and paid revenue to company.
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The Ryotwari system, instituted in some parts of British India was a system used to collect revenues from the cultivators of agricultural land. These revenues included undifferentiated land taxes and rents, collected simultaneously. Where the land revenue was imposed directly on the ryots, the individual cultivators who actually worked the land system of assessment was known as ryotwari. The system of ryotwari settlement consisted of contracts for payment of government revenue, assessed in monetary terms for every field with each individual ryot without joint responsibility and without the intervention of a zamindar, a village headman or any other intermediary. That is why the system was known as ryotwari which literally means according to or with ryots. hence its true