In 1797, Lord Cornwallis set up an official state agency that licensed peasant cultivators to grow poppy, process it, and export it to China via Calcutta.

Satyāgraha was applied against the British indigo planters at Champaran in Bihar, where peasant cultivators, or ryots, were being unfairly treated.

Unlike other Kunjra groups, the Kabaria are largely a community of peasant cultivators.

They are still employed as butchers, but many are now peasant cultivators.

Meanwhile the "tendency towards the eviction of peasant cultivators from the land should be checked."

The feudal land system, established through the Permanent Settlement of Bengal, was unpopular among the peasant cultivators and the numerous agricultural labourers found all over Bihar and Bengal (Khetmazdoors).

A small number are now small and medium sized peasant cultivators.

Ryot (alternates: raiyat, or ravat) was a general economic term used throughout India for peasant cultivators but with variations in different provinces.

They are now mainly a community of peasant cultivators, but historically were in possession of most of the Bara of Ghazipur District.

Most Barhiya are now peasant cultivators they ruled barhiya district bihar.