Which of the following statements is correct?

a- In the Mughal Empire of the 16th -17th centuries, the land revenue arrangements consisted of two stages.

b- Akbar decreed that zamindars should strive to make cultivators pay in cash only.

Only statement a is correct.

Akbar decreed that while the zamindar should strive to make cultivators pay in cash, the option of payment in kind was also to be kept open.