In the wide inland rivers, fishermen employ cast nets in the following manner.
The Pandya Vannans have a headman called the Periya Manishan (big man).
Each man is in a boat, which is propelled by a boy with a bamboo.
Talaiyaris still continue to be employed and paid by the ryots (cultivators) as the private guardians of their crops and harvested grain.
It is all expended on his land, if the policy of the revenue administration of the country be liberal, and the acts of Government such as to give confidence to the ryots or husbandmen; otherwise their hoarded gains are buried.
He it is who goes round the rice fields, and diverts the water-courses to the various fields, according to the rights of the ryots (agriculturists).
So important was well irrigation, that the Government had resolved to make advances to ryots willing to construct them, at a low rate of interest, and repayable by easy instalments in a long series of years.
Bell Irving, as representing over 3,300 square miles of land in Lower Bengal, stated that he "was not prepared to contend that in certain respects the ryots and zemindars have not benefited from the depreciation of the rupee.
Here and there stood the high frames made by planting four bamboos in a square and wickering the top, whereon the ryots sit when the crops are ripening, to watch against thieves and cattle, and to drive away the birds of the air.
The ryots employed the Wuddurs to destroy them, who killed them by thousands, receiving a measure of grain for so many dozens, without perceptibly diminishing their numbers.
Unless something be done, it is certain that the rifle will have to be called into requisition to protect the ryots of tracts bordering upon elephant jungles.
About a month after his arrival, a Zemindar of Kadampur, named Debendra Chandra Mitra, sued one of his ryots for ejectment in the local Múnsiff's Court.
Indian ryotsare quite as receptive of new ideas as English farmers.
One of the ryots had paid his rent in full but declined to add the usual commission exacted by the bailiffs, who fell on him in a body and pummelled him severely.
Figures set down in these accounts were checked by private inquiries among theryots themselves.
He also started a business in lending ryots rice for their seed-grain and support till the harvest should be reaped.
The little slips of paper are lost or destroyed, with the result that many ryotshave had to pay twice over.
Shopkeepers and ryots alike, seeing that justice was likely to prevail, came forward to depose to acts of tyranny by Ramani Babu's servants and their allies, the police.
His own ryots were enjoined to attend; shopkeepers, hucksters, and fishermen who had hitherto gone much further afield, came in considerable numbers; and business was amazingly brisk.
What security will the Company have for their property, or where are the ryots to look for relief against oppressions?
Most people know the common levelling plank used by the ryots (cultivators) all over India to level the wet field after ploughing.
It is the business of all, from the ryots to the dewan, to conceal and deceive.
I did so when at Mudnabati, which was as lonesome a place as could have been thought of, and when I well knew that many of our own ryots were dakoits (robbers).
The system of inducing the ryots to cultivate by advances, protected by a stringent contract law, still exists in the case of opium.
It is believed that the ryots will eventually be able to secure, and to hold against all comers, the strong legal position which the Bengal Tenancy Act has given them.
If, as is generally the case, sufficient land is not attached to the factory to supply it with plant, the owner obtains what he requires by inducing the ryots in his vicinity to cultivate it upon a part of their land.
It is used by the ryots in their curries instead of vinegar.
I have enough to send to other countries and buy food for myself and my ryots during the twelve years' famine.
I was a great Raja; how can I ask my ryots to give me food?
As soon as they heard the rain had fallen, all the ryots who had gone to other countries on account of the famine returned to Raja Harichand's country.
They use sandals such as are generally worn by ryotsand the lower classes.
The Ur Korava is fast losing his individuality, and assimilating, in dress, manners and customs, theryots among whom he dwells.
Moreover, no reliable information could be obtained from ryots or zemindars, who were alike suspicious of British intentions and mortally terrified by the British invasion.
In 1793 Lord Cornwallis was succeeded by Sir John Shore, the Bengal civilian who pressed Lord Cornwallis to settle the rights and rents of the ryots before proclaiming the perpetual settlement with the zemindars.
By the stroke of a pen he converted the British supervisors into British collectors of revenues; and thus brought the new collectors into direct contact with the zemindars, who collected yearly rents from the ryots or tenant farmers.
Under such circumstances it was proposed to settle the revenue of the Carnatic territory, acquired in 1801, with individual ryots or landholders under what was afterwards known as the ryotwari system.
The groups of villages were again brought into the market, and as Lord Wellesley had left India, the estates were bought in by the Madras government, and the revenue resettled with individual ryots or cultivators.
Sometimes one or other of our simple, devoted, old ryotscomes to see me--and their worshipful homage is so unaffected!
As soon as the manager with his staff, and the ryots seeking audience, come upon the scene, this faint vista of past and future will be promptly elbowed out, and a very robust present will salute and stand before me.
On the bank, to my right, the ryots are ploughing and cows are now and then brought down to the water's edge for a drink.
The dripping ryots are crossing the river in the ferryboat, some with their tokas[1] on, others with yam leaves held over their heads.
He must have his eyes open to everything going on, be able to tell the probable rent-roll of every village for miles around, know whether the ryots are lazy and discontented, or are industrious and hard-working.
But all ryots are not alike, and when the putwarrie gets hold of some unwary and ignorant bumpkin whom he can plunder, he does plunder him systematically.
It is ploughed by factory bullocks, worked by factory coolies, and is altogether apart and separate from the ordinary lands held by the ryots and worked by them.
The ryots all loved him, and would do anything for him; and when poor old Kassee died, the third year he had been under me, I felt as if an old friend had gone.
I delighted my ryotsby importing some of our own country recreations, and setting the ploughmen to compete against each other.
Such men are however rare, and if not very closely looked after, they are apt to abuse their position, and often harass the ryots needlessly, looking more to the feathering of their own nests than the advancement of your interests.
Certain deductions have to be made--some ryots may be defaulters.
Long before break of day the ryots and coolies are busy cutting the plant, leaving it in green little heaps for the cartmen to load.
Up early in the cold raw fog, he is over his Zeraats long before dawn, and round by his outlying villages to see the ryots at work in their fields.
But he says that no persuasion can induce the ryots to keep that which is picked in the morning from that which is gathered in the heat of the day.
Like the ryots and the agricultural labourers, they do not show the least sign of revolt.
He also summoned the Grandees of the realm, who came and did him homage; as also did the citizens and he bestowed on them sumptuous robes of honour and commended the Ryots to their care.
I repeat that there are no them redress, the ryots(7) will ryots in the villages.
Where the ryots were collected in sufficient numbers to render such a proceeding possible, they armed themselves not only against the British but against all the world.
After two months of constant pilfering the unhappy ryots had little left.
Yes, but if you want to make the English people think about the Ryots you must be careful of the least indiscretion or exaggeration.
These ryots are being done to death by floods, by drought, by Zemindars, and usurers.
Once upon a time a certain country was ravaged by a Rakhas to such an extent that there were only the Raja and a few ryots left.
Then the Raja resigned his kingdom to Lela and the ryots begged him to stay and rule over them; so he remained there and lived happily ever after.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ryots" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
