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raiyatwari

raiyatwari 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 raiyatwari

What is raiyatwari the alternative form of?
Raiyatwari is the alternative form of ryotwari.

Words near raiyatwari in the dictionary

  1. Raithby by Spilsby
  2. Raithby cum Maltby
  3. raither
  4. raiyat
  5. raiyats
  6. raiyatwari
  7. raiyot
  8. raiyots
  9. Raizal
  10. raj
  11. raja

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Adapted from Wiktionary: raiyatwari (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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