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Ryot vs Raiyat - What's the difference?

ryot | raiyat | Alternative forms |

Raiyat is a alternative form of ryot.



As nouns the difference between ryot and raiyat

is that ryot is a farmer or tiller of the soil while raiyat is a peasant or agricultural labourer in South Asia.

ryot

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A farmer or tiller of the soil.

    • Usage notes

    The word does not find a place in several modern dictionaries, but is still used by general media, especially on the Indian sub-continent.

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    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.