Ryot

Quick meaning: Ryot is a noun meaning (India) A farmer or tiller of the soil.

Meaning

(India) A farmer or tiller of the soil.

Example Sentences

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.

We have seen, however, how the condition arose, namely, that the Government at first half-intended to make a permanent settlement direct with the ryots, but subsequently altered its intention and devolved this duty upon the zemindars.

Scattered about the grazing and arable country are now small towers of refuge, loop-holed for defense, to which ryots working in the fields, or shepherds tending their flocks, fled for safety in case of a sudden appearance of Turcoman marauders.

Word Forms

• ryots

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include occupancy, tiller, earthling, agricolist, grower, patwari.

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