Consider the following statements regarding the socio-cultural fabric and legitimacy of Rajput clans:
1. The 'Agnikula' myth mentioned in Chand Bardai’s Prithviraj Raso was primarily a mechanism for social mobility to legitimize foreign or tribal ruling classes into the Kshatriya fold.
2. The period saw a strict restriction on the proliferation of sub-castes (jatis), maintaining the rigid four-fold Varna system.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

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Statement 1 is correct; historians view the Agnikula (fire-born) theory as a process of Rajputization, where ruling elites of diverse origins were given Kshatriya status through purificatory rituals. Statement 2 is incorrect because this period saw a massive proliferation of sub-castes (jatis), especially due to the assimilation of tribal groups and differentiation within occupational classes.

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