Change the narrative style by using indirect speeches. 

"Where is the cattle which these people graze and where are the fields they plough, uncle?" he asked, turning to Daya Ram. "They have no cattle and no fields here," said the chaprasi, pushing his neck back to stiff uprightness. "It is only the rustics in the villages who graze cattle and plough the land," he said. 

Turning to Daya Ram and addressing him as uncle, the boy asked him where the cattle were which those people grazed and where the fields were which they ploughed. Pushing his neck to stiff 8. Par uprightness, the chaprasi replied that they had. no cattle and no fields therE- Then he (C) added that it was only the rustics in the villages who grazed cattle and ploughed the land.