Who implemented Ryotwari system?
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Ryotwari system of land revenue was instituted by Sir Thomas Munro, Governor of Madras in 1820. It was first introduced in Madras presidency.
Ryot means peasant cultivators.
In this system, the peasants were regarded as the owners of the land. They had ownership rights, could sell, mortgage or gift the land.
The government directly collected land revenue from the peasants.
The ryots could not be evicted from their land as long as they paid the rent.
Here there were no middlemen as in the Zamindari system. But, since high taxes had to be paid only in cash, the problem of moneylenders came into the show. They further burdened the peasants with heavy interests. They exploited the cultivators and evicted them from their land in case of loan default.