4 adjectives to describe ryots

Some seed must be saved for next year, and an average poor ryot, the cultivator of but a little holding, very soon sees the result of his harvesting melt away, leaving little for wife and little ones to live on.

When the rice-field is readya sloppy, muddy, embanked little quagmirethe ryot gets his bundle of young rice-plants, and shoves in two or three at a time with his finger and thumb.

When the rice-field is readya sloppy, muddy, embanked little quagmirethe ryot gets his bundle of young rice-plants, and shoves in two or three at a time with his finger and thumb.

The cow calves are pretty much left to take care of themselves; they are thin, miserable, half-starved brutes, and the short-sighted ryot seems altogether to forget that it is on these miserable withered specimens that he must depend for his supply of plough and cart-bullocks.

4 adjectives to describe  ryots