ayakut
ayakut noun: a tax or water rate imposed by the British on farmers in India during the British colonial period for using water from wells, canals, or other water sources.
Noun
ayakut (countable and uncountable, plural ayakuts)
- A tax or water rate imposed by the British on farmers in India during the British colonial period for using water from wells, canals, or other water sources.
- The only addition I have to make is that the supplemental and ayakut wells do not appear to have been sufficiently differentiated and I would urge the extension of the former in all places where the supply to tanks is at all precarious.1902, H.E. Clerk, Preliminary Report on the Investigation of Protective Irrigation Works and on Irrigation Under Wells in the Madras Presidency, page 30
- As for the ayakut accounts produced by the appellant, they are produced from the respondent's custody and they are more than fifty years old, and this special circumstance also renders them admissible as evidence of reputation unless they are shown to be tainted with suspicion.1914, M. Subramaniam, M. V. Krishnaswamy, The Law Reports of British India - Volume 3, page 624
Forms of ayakut
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Origin of ayakut
From Persian "aya", meaning water, and "kut", meaning a share or portion.
Questions about ayakut
- What does ayakut mean?
- Ayakut means a tax or water rate imposed by the British on farmers in India during the British colonial period for using water from wells, canals, or other water sources.
- What part of speech is ayakut?
- Ayakut is a noun.
- What is the plural of ayakut?
- The plural of ayakut is ayakuts.
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