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raiyat - What does it mean?

Definition of 'raiyat'

English

Alternative forms

*raiat *ryot

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A peasant or agricultural labourer in South Asia.
  • *1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Education of Otis Yeere’, Under the Deodars , Folio Society 2005, p. 15:
  • *:They are simply the rank-and-file – the food for fever – sharing with the ryot and the plough-bullock the honour of being the plinth on which the State rests.
  • Similar to 'raiyat'

    reheat, rehat, rouet, rewet