Terms vs Raiyat - What's the difference?
terms | raiyat |
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.
