Which of the following statements is incorrect?

a- Our understanding of the workings of rural society comes from those who worked the land; the peasants.
b- Our major sources for the agrarian history of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries are chronicles and documents from the Mughal court.

Only statement b is correct.

Correct statement a- Our understanding of the workings of rural society does not come from those who worked the land, as peasants did not write about themselves.