In the given question, a statement of Assertion is followed by a statement of Reason. Mark the correct answer.

Assertion: Modern historians writing in English have termed the works of the court historians commissioned by the Mughal Kings to record the events of the emperor's time as chronicles.

Reason: Modern historians writing in English have termed this genre of texts chronicles, as they present a continuous chronological record of events.

Both the Assertion and the Reason are correct and the Reason is the correct explanation of the Assertion.

The correct answer is Option 1 - Both the Assertion and the Reason are correct and the Reason is the correct explanation of the Assertion.

Assertion: Modern historians writing in English have termed the works of the court historians commissioned by the Mughal Kings to record the events of the emperor's time as chronicles.

Reason: Modern historians writing in English have termed this genre of texts chronicles, as they present a continuous chronological record of events.

The Reason directly explains why the Assertion is true. The use of the term "chronicles" by modern historians is specifically because these texts provide a continuous chronological record of events. Hence, both the Assertion and the Reason are correct and the Reason is the correct explanation of the Assertion.

The Mughal kings commissioned court historians to write accounts. These accounts recorded the events of the emperor’s time. In addition, their writers collected vast amounts of information from the regions of the subcontinent to help the rulers govern their domain. Modern historians writing in English have termed this genre of texts chronicles, as they present a continuous chronological record of events. Chronicles are an indispensable source for any scholar wishing to write a history of the Mughals. At one level they were a repository of factual information about the institutions of the Mughal state, painstakingly collected and classified by individuals closely connected with the court.