The Ryotwari system of land revenue settlement, under which the colonial government settled revenue directly with the individual cultivator rather than through an intermediary landlord, is chiefly associated with the work of which of the following in the Madras Presidency?

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C. Alexander Read and Thomas Munro. The Ryotwari system, under which the colonial government settled land revenue directly with the individual cultivator rather than through an intermediary landlord, is chiefly associated with Alexander Read and Thomas Munro, who developed and applied it in the Madras Presidency. Lord Cornwallis instead introduced the very different Permanent, or zamindari, Settlement in Bengal, and Warren Hastings and Lord William Bentinck are associated with other reforms altogether. Hence option C correctly identifies who introduced Ryotwari.

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A. Lord Cornwallis

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B. Warren Hastings

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C. Alexander Read and Thomas Munro

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D. Lord William Bentinck