riots

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For centuries, India's ryots turned their bullock-drawn, wooden plows against the kans roots, to no avail.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Rájá Harichand’s country.

From Indian Fairy Tales by Anonymous

One day some hundreds of his ryots came to the kacheri, and with joined palms stood at the door.

From The Poison Tree A Tale of Hindu Life in Bengal by Knight, Miriam S.

The ryots, peasant proprietors of the soil, drew their rough carts aside and salaamed as he passed.

From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Tracy, Louis

Doubts have been expressed as to the success of co-operation because of the tightness of the Mahajan's hold on the ryots.

From Third class in Indian railways by Gandhi, Mahatma