[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886) › c10.12837 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.12837 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.12837 - **Language:** English ### [c10.12837](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.12837) RYOT, s. Ar. \*ra’iyat\*, from \*ra’a\*, ‘to pasture,’ meaning originally, according to its etymology, ‘a herd at pasture’; but then ‘subjects’ (collectively). It is by natives used for ‘a subject’ in India, but its specific Anglo-Indian application is to ‘a tenant of the soil’; an individual occupying land as a farmer or cultivator. In Turkey the word, in the form \*raiya\*, is applied to the Christian subjects of the Porte, who are not liable to the conscription, but pay a poll-tax in lieu, the \*Kharāj\*, or \*Jizya\* (see JEZYA). - [Previous: c10.12836](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.12836) - [Next: c10.12838](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.12838) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.12837](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.12837) · Pramāṇa