History · Medieval India
Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R). Assertion (A): The Zabt system entailed the classification of land on the basis of continuity of cultivation into four categories: (i) Polaj: land cultivated every year (ii) Parauti: land left fallow for some time to recover its fertility (iii) Chachar: land that remained fallow for three or four years (iv) Banjar: land that remained uncultivated for five years or more Reason (R): To expand and improve cultivation, Akbar levied lower rates of revenue for Parauti, Chachar, and Banjar categories of land and charged the full sanctioned rate only when they reached the Polaj category. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
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- 1(A) is not correct but (R) is correct.✓
- 2(A) is correct but (R) is not correct.
- 3Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
- 4Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
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(A) is not correct but (R) is correct.
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