Dictionary/रैयत
Noun

रैयत

raiyat

Definitions

Noun

peasant, cultivator, tenant farmer

a person who tills land, especially as a tenant under a landlord or feudal system; an Arabic-origin term widely used in colonial and pre-independence Indian land revenue contexts

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