Crossword-Solution: RYOTWARI 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Presently, the Legal Member, talking “shop,” to the Head of a Department, mentioned his Bill by its full name--“The Sub-Montane Tracts Ryotwari Revised Enactment.” Tods caught the one native word, and lifting up his small voice said:--“Oh, I know ALL about that! Has it been murramutted yet, Councillor Sahib?” “How much?” said the Legal Member.

Tods had heard the bazaar talking of a new plan for the Ryotwari, as bazaars talk when there is no white man to overhear.

The beautiful Bill, in short, was altogether wrong, more especially in the Council's pet clause which so clearly "safeguarded the interests of the tenant." It therefore came about that the rough draft of the Submontane Tracts Ryotwari Revised Enactment was put away in the Legal Member's private paper-box--"and, opposite the twenty-second clause, pencilled in blue chalk, and signed by the Legal Member, are the words, 'Tods' Amendment.'" The moral of the tale is not obscure.

The cultivator should be a vassal of the Crown; and what Charles V called the "tribute" of the Indians was simply the land tax of eastern countries, the _ryotwari_ system of Sir Thomas Munro in Madras.