Q. Assertion (A):
Among the many South Indian dynasties, the Cholas alone were able to ignore their feudatories to a significant extent.
Reason (R) :
The Chola kings granted autonomous powers to village assemblies with a view to completely eliminating the feudatories. In the context of the above two statements, which of the following is correct?

• (A) Both ‘A’ and ‘‘R’ are true but ‘R’ is not the correct explanation of ‘A’.
• (B) ‘A’ is true but ‘R’ is false
• (C) ‘A’ is false but ‘R’ is true
• (D) Both ‘A’ and ‘R’ are true and ‘R’ is the correct explanation of ‘A’.