Arabic · noun · People & Roles

Ryot

रैयत

said RYE-ot

also written: raiyat, raiyyat, rayat

Meaning

A peasant cultivator who tills the soil and pays land revenue; the common subject in the revenue order.

Literally: flock, subjects tended

Related words

A land-revenue system in which the state settled and collected revenue directly from the individual cultivator, without a zamindar intermediary.

A landowner or landlord; holder of land and its revenue.

A cultivator or tenant farmer who works the land; a tiller paying rent or revenue.