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ryot|ˈraɪət|
Forms: 7 riat, 8 reiot, 9 riot; 8–9 ryott, 8– ryot, 9 ryat(t, ryet.
[Urdū raﻋīyat, raiyat, ultimately of Arabic origin: see rayat and rayah.]
An Indian peasant, husbandman, or cultivating tenant.
1625Purchas Pilgrims I. iii. 223 His poore Riats or Clownes. 1776Trial J. Fowke, Deposit. 18/1 Such oppressions as produced complaints..against him from great numbers of the Reiots. 1788F. Gladwin tr. Mem. Khojeh Abdulkurreem 150 An army of these free-booters [Mahrattas], who distressed the ryotts. 1800Wellesley in Owen Desp. (1877) 192 A systematic settlement..for promoting the security and ease of the ryots. 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India II. 488 To make advances to the Ryots, in order to restore to them the means of cultivating the lands which had fallen into neglect. 1879H. George Progr. & Pov. ii. ii. (1881) 106 The actual slavery to which the ryots are reduced.
attrib.1802James Milit. Dict., Ryot Lands, lands farmed out and cultivated by the tenant. |