Ryot

The Government was in the habit of collecting the land tax from the 'ryot' or peasant through a class of middle-men called 'talukd [= a] rs', [17] who had existed under the native princes for a long time. ❋ George Henry Blore (N/A)

October 4, 2009 at 5:33 am ohai 2 minions! awn a unrelaytid note…did teh linkee wurk sew u cud see teh HH sawng? wuzza ryot, ai fowt! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Reel reezun fur ryot: narsty Merikan cheez awn burgers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Our wreastling at armes, is turned to wallowyng in Ladies laps, our courage, to cowardice, our running to ryot, our Bowes into Bolles, and our Dartes to Dishes. ❋ Heo (2006)

And if there were a lack of competitors, the ridicule of fools would ryot deter us from hanging up a lifeless image and practising at that. ❋ Unknown (2006)

In the Madras presidency a careful survey along the lines of local practice led to a system of direct levy (periodically reassessed) from the ryot (peasant), later extended to Bombay presidency (ryotwari system); in the Northwest and Central Provinces, somewhat later, a third type of revenue settlement, the mahalwari system, was introduced, collecting revenue through villages or estates. ❋ Unknown (2001)

-- The sugar cane being one of the most valued crops of the ryot, he always devotes to it a portion of the fertilising matters he has at command, though in every instance this is too small. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

A ryot cultivating alluvial lands, and having no seed, can hardly ever repay his advances; but it does not follow that he has been a loser, for he, perhaps, could not value his time, labor, and rent altogether at half the amount; and as long as this system is kept within moderate bounds, it answers much better than private cultivation to the manufacturer, and has many contingent advantages to the cultivator. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

Speaking of the Indian peasant a writer in an English journal says: 'The ryot lives in the face of Nature, on a simple diet easily procured, and inherits a philosophy, which, without literary culture, lifts his spirit into a higher plane of thought than other peasantries know of. ❋ Rupert H. Wheldon (N/A)

This is the second process of adulteration -- the ryot desiring to sell the drug as much drenched with oil as possible, the retailers at the same time refusing to purchase that which is thinner than half dried glue. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

He is generally most forbearing with his clients and customers, and is not the person most responsible for the indebtedness of the ryot. ❋ R. V. Russell (N/A)

It can only be the reluctance of the ryot to cultivate indigo that induces a manufacturer to grow it himself, for it has been found an expensive plan, profitable only when the dye is at its highest rate, and even then scarcely furnishing an adequate return. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

The sugar cane is an exhausting crop, and it is seldom cultivated by the ryot more frequently than once in three or four years on the same land. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

People among us who are capable of exercising astral clairvoyance in full perfection -- but have not yet been called away to higher functions in connexion with the promotion of human progress, of which ordinary humanity at present knows even less than an Indian ryot knows of cabinet councils -- are still very few. ❋ W. Scott-Elliot (N/A)

That so they may be traynde to knowe, both ryot here and theft. ❋ John Ashton (N/A)

The ryot, or cultivator, requires for the work a pair of bullocks, which cost him at least 32s., a bucket made of a white bullock hide, at 2s., and a rope for 2s. more, both of which do not last him above a year. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

The reasons for this neglect are valid, for the grain crops are more profitable to the ryot, and indigo is one of the most precarious of India's vegetable products. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

Yet it is with them far from a favorite object of cultivation; and, indeed, if it were not for the money advanced to each ryot by the planter, to provide seed, &c., and which gives him ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

It is the system known in India at this day as ryot-rent; the cultivator undertakes to give the owner a certain fixed quantity yearly from the produce of the farm, and all that is over belongs to himself. ❋ William Arnot (N/A)

Assamee, an Indian name for the ryot or cultivator, 467 ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

Riots [caused] by ryots [cost] [lots] of money and lives. ❋ The Magnificent Bloke (2007)