Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R). Assertion (A): Malguzars or primary Zamindars were the holders of proprietary, hereditary, alienable rights over agricultural and habitational lands. They acquired those rights upon assuring the Mughal state that they would bring forests and wastelands under cultivation, maintain and extend cultivation and pay the Kharaj or mal regularly. Reason (R): Malguzars could either cultivate the land themselves (Khud-Kasht) with the help of family labor or hired labor, or let it out to tenant cultivators. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

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Answer 1

Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

Answer 2

Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)

Answer 3

(A) is correct but (R) is not correct

Answer 4

(A) is not correct but (R) is correct

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