different between raiat vs raiyat

English

From Urdu ????? (ra'iyat, “peasant”), from Persian ? (ra'eyat, “population, peasants”), from Arabic ????????? (ra?iyya, “flock, herd”).

raiyat (plural raiyats or raiyat)

A peasant or agricultural labourer in South Asia.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Education of Otis Yeere’, Under the Deodars, Folio Society 2005, p. 15:
  They are simply the rank-and-file – the food for fever – sharing with the ryot and the plough-bullock the honour of being the plinth on which the State rests.

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