Read carefully and answer the following excerpts the questions that follow:

A Ryot Petitions

This is an example of a petition from a ryot of the village of Mirajgaon, Taluka Karjat to the Collector, Ahmednagar, Deccan Riots Commission:

The sowkars (sahukars). have oflate begun to oppress us. As we cannot earn enough to defray our household expenses, we are actually forced to beg of them to provide us with money, clothes and grain, which we obtain from them not without great difficulty, nor without their compelling us to enter into hard conditions in the bond. Moreover the necessary clothes and grain are not sold to us at cash rates. The prices asked from us are generally twenty-five or fifty per cent more than demanded from customers making ready money payments .... The produce of our fields is also taken by the sowkars, who at the time of removing it assure us that it will be credited to our account, but they do not actually make any mention of it in the accounts. They also refuse to pass us any receipts for the produce so removed by them.

(i) What were the four grievances of the peasants?

(ii) Give one norm that regulated the relationship between the moneylender and the ryot.

(iii) What was the ‘Limitation Law’ ? How was it manipulated by the moneylender?