The Ryotwari system was introduced in the 18th century by Sir Thomas Munro, the Governor General of the then Madras Province of British India.
The Ryotwari system was introduced by Sir Thomas Munro in 1820 in several areas of the Madras and Bombay provinces as well as in the provinces of Assam and Coorg.
Under the Ryotwari system, the peasants were considered as the owners of the land and they had the ownership rights of the land i.e. they could sell the land, mortgage it or gift it to someone.
The then government used to collect tax directly from the farmers and there was no middleman in between, as was the case in the earlier Zamindari system.
The rate of tax collected from the farmers was 50% in dry land and 60% in wet land.
If the government used to evict the farmer from the land while paying the farmers.
What was the Ryotwari system?
Ryotwari System Farmer This was a kind of system different from the Zamindari system, in which the owner of the land was made directly to the farmers. Unlike the earlier Zamindari system, there were no middlemen, but the farmers who were made owners of the land had to pay tax at a higher rate, and this payment had to be made in cash and not in kind. As the farmers used to do earlier in the ancient agricultural system of India and used to pay tax as a share of the crop to the king.