Meaning of raiyat | Babel Free

Definitions

A peasant or agricultural labourer in South Asia.

Examples

“In Ireland Paddy makes riots, in Bengal raiyats make paddy; and in this lies the difference between the paddy of green Bengal and Paddy of the Emerald Isle.”

“They are simply the rank-and-file—the food for fever—sharing with the ryot and the plough-bullock the honor of being the plinth on which the State rests.”

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