Given below are two statements - one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R)
Assertion (A): Pride vanity, sympathy, antipathy, personal rivalry, political differences, social distinctions, religious disputes or patriotic favour could induce certain individuals to distort original records.
Reason (R): There remains a grey zone between scholarship and political statements, which perhaps affects historians more than others, because, they have been used from time immemorial to legitimate claims of politicians.
In the context of the above statements which of the following is correct?
1
Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
2
Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
3
(A) is true but (R) is false
4
(A) is false but (R) is true