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. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 100 out of 100.
Etymology
From Persian "aya", meaning water, and "kut", meaning a share or portion.
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.“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.”