30 December 2018

ryot

[rahy-uh t]

noun (in India)

a peasant.
a person who holds land as a cultivator of the soil.

Origin of ryot

1615–25; Hindi raiyat; Persian; Arabic raʿīyah subjects, literally, flock

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Historical Examples

Like the ryots and the agricultural labourers, they do not show the least sign of revolt.
The New World of Islam
Lothrop Stoddard

The farmers in Egypt irrigate in the same way as the ryots of India.
The Critic in the Orient
George Hamlin Fitch

Indian ryots are quite as receptive of new ideas as English farmers.
Tales of Bengal
S. B. Banerjea

Certain deductions have to be made—some ryots may be defaulters.
Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier
James Inglis

It is the business of all, from the ryots to the dewan, to conceal and deceive.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. XII. (of XII.)
Edmund Burke

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