Lexicographical Neighbors of Raiyats
Literary usage of Raiyats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Early English Administration of Bihar, 1781-1785 by J. Reginald Hand (1894)
"I frequently admonished Mir Barkatullah against oppressing the poor raiyats, and
was often obliged to give him safeguard from the Revenue office to his ..."
2. Bengal Under the Lieutenant-governors: Being a Narrative of the Principal by C. E. Buckland (1901)
"The really serious disputes arise between the zamindars and the raiyats having
right of occupancy—mainly men who have been 12 years and upwards in ..."
3. The Land Systems of British India: Being a Manual of the Land-tenures and of by Baden Henry Baden-Powell (1892)
"raiyats who have expended such capital on their fields as to give them some
special title to ... raiyats who are relations of present or former proprietors, ..."
4. The Law of Riparian Rights, Alluvion and Fishery: With Introductory Lectures by Lal Mohun Doss (1891)
"under-raiyats, that is to say, tenants holding whether immediately or ...
non-occupancy raiyats. Section 52 is apparently based on the principle that, ..."
5. Bengal Under the Lieutenant-governors: Being a Narrative of the Principal by Charles Edward Buckland (1901)
"These causes had for some lime prepared the minds of the raiyats for the movement,
to which, it was believed, they were immediately instigated by certain ..."
6. The Land Systems of British India: Being a Manual of the Land-tenures and of by Baden Henry Baden-Powell (1892)
"raiyats who are relations of present or former proprietors, ... raiyats of new
villages who have held their fields since the village was founded, ..."
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