History · Sources of Medieval Indian History
UGC NET June 2012 History
Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes below.
Assertion (A): Recurring peasant revolts in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries are believed to have been a major cause of the decline of the Mughal Empire.
Reason (R): Regional sentiments against a centralized Mughal state had not been there.
ABoth A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
BBoth A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A ✓ Correct
CA is true, but R is false
DA is false, but R is true
Correct answer: (B) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A — Both statements are taken as true but the reason does not explain the assertion, so the answer is both true with R not explaining A.
Explanation
★Both statements are taken as true but the reason does not explain the assertion, so the answer is both true with R not explaining A.
★Recurring peasant and zamindar revolts in the Jat, Sikh, Satnami and other regions did strain the late Mughal state.
★The heavy revenue demand and agrarian crisis helped weaken Mughal authority.
★The reason claims that regional sentiment against the central state was absent.
★But even if that were so, it does not account for the peasant revolts described in the assertion.
★So the two statements may both stand, yet the reason fails to explain the cause of decline.
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