Given below are two statements : Statement I : Akbar and his elite first saw tobacco in 1604 AD. Statement II : Abul Fazl in his Ain-i-Akbari described the cultivation and use of tobacco in North India in detail. In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Introduction of tobacco

• Tobacco was brought to India by the Portuguese and reached the Mughal court from the Deccan. Asad Beg, an officer returning from Bijapur, presented tobacco and a jewelled pipe to Akbar in about 1604, and this is recorded as the first occasion when the emperor and his nobles saw and smoked tobacco. Hence, statement I is true.

Ain-i-Akbari

• The Ain-i-Akbari, the third volume of the Akbarnama, was completed by Abul Fazl in the 1590s and gives detailed statistical accounts of the provinces, crops, revenue rates, the household and the administration of the empire.
• As tobacco reached the court only in the early years of the seventeenth century, it does not find a place among the crops described in the Ain-i-Akbari. Hence, statement II is false.
• Jahangir later prohibited smoking of tobacco in 1617.