Question

who were ryots in ryotwari system

Answer 1

Ryots were the peasants who worked on farms. Under the Ryotwari system, these peasants were recognized as ownmers of the land and the revenue settlement was made directly with them by the British government

Answer 2

Peasants are ryots in the ryotwari system.

EXPLANATION:

Ryotwari system is one of the Land revenue settlements in British India. Peasants or individual cultivators are directly responsible to pay the land rent to the British, there are no intermediaries in this system.

Initially, the Ryotwari system implemented by Thomas Munro in the Madras Presidency. Later it extended to Bombay, Assam, and Burma regions.

There is no middleman exploitation in this system because peasants directly paid the Land rent to the British government, but land revenue fixed high so the majority of ryots unable to pay rent on time.