Regarding the protection of routes under Mughal administration, which of the following statements are correct? Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.
1.The protection of the routes was regarded as one of the foremost duties of the administration.
2.The organisation of the caravans and serais of the tandas of banjaras, who went armed, and possibly of flotillas in the rivers, was mainly assigned to meet the threat of robbery on the routes.
3.Under the Mughal empire, the officer in whose jurisdiction robbery or theft occurred had to recover the goods or had to compensate the victim himself.
4.The officers met this obligation by pursuing a policy of ferocious reprisals and sacking the suspected villages.
A1, 3 and 4 only
B2 and 3 only
C1, 2, 3 and 4
D2, 3 and 4 only
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