Ryotwari system was started in _______ and Madras.

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  2. Punjab
  3. Kolkata
  4. Odisha 

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  • Ryotwari system was started in Bombay and Madras.
    • Thomas Munro introduced the Ryotwari System in Bombay and Madras in 1820.
    • A direct settlement was made between the government and the cultivators under the Ryotwari System.

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  • The ryotwari system was a land revenue system in British India that was introduced by Sir Thomas Munro allowed the government to deal directly with the cultivator ('ryot') for revenue collection and gave the peasant freedom to cede or acquire new land for cultivation.
    • Ryotwari System somewhere in mid and changes in the position.
    • This system was in operation for nearly 5 years and had many features of the revenue system of the Mughals.
    • It was instituted in some parts of British India, one of the three main systems used to collect revenues from the cultivators of agricultural land.
    • These taxes included undifferentiated land revenue and rents, collected simultaneously.
    • Where the land revenue was imposed directly on the ryots (the individual cultivators who actually worked the land) the system of assessment was known as ryotwari. 
    • The Ryotwari system is associated with the name of Thomas Munro, who was appointed Governor of Madras in May 1820.
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