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raiatwari

raiatwari is the alternative form of ryotwari.

Meaning of ryotwari

Noun

ryotwari (uncountable)

  1. (historical) In British India, a system used to collect revenues directly from the ryots (cultivators of agricultural land), as opposed to zamindari, where revenues were collected indirectly through zamindars.

Questions about raiatwari

What is raiatwari the alternative form of?
Raiatwari is the alternative form of ryotwari.

Words near raiatwari in the dictionary

  1. raia
  2. raias
  3. raiat
  4. Raiatea
  5. raiats
  6. raiatwari
  7. RAIB
  8. Raible
  9. Raibles
  10. Raiche
  11. Raiches

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Adapted from Wiktionary: raiatwari (page history and authors); ryotwari (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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