Explanation:
Statement 1 is correct. Sen was made the acharya by Debendranath Tagore soon after the former joined the Samaj in 1858. He brought in an element of radicalism into the movement, by attacking caste system, by focusing on the question of women's rights, by promoting widow remarriage and inter-caste marriages, cosmopolitanisation of the Samaj's meetings by inclusion of teachings from all religions and by raising the issue of caste status of the Brahmo preachers, a position hitherto reserved for the Brahmans alone. He renewed the attention to the social reforms. But this radicalism also brought first rift within the Brahmo movement.
Statement 2 is correct. The Movement was actually taken out of the limited elite circles of Calcutta literati into the district towns of East Bengal by Sen and Bijoy Goswami. Sen's specific focus was to reach larger number of non-Westernised Bengalis in the eastern Gangetic plains and to take the movement outside Bengal to United Provinces, Punjab, Bombay, Madras etc.
Statement 3 is incorrect. After dismissal from the Brahmo Samaj, Sen founded the Brahmo Samaj of India along with his followers in 1866, while Debendranath's Samaj came to be known as Adi (original) Brahmo Samaj. In 1878, Sen's inexplicable act of getting his thirteen year old daughter married with the minor Hindu Maharaja of Cooch-Behar with all the orthodox Hindu rituals cause another split in Sen's Brahmo Samaj of India. After 1878, the disgusted followers of Sen set up a new organisation, the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj. By this time successive ideological rifts and organisiational divisions had weakened the Brahmo movement, confining it to the small elite group. And then it succumbed to a neo- Hindu aggressive campaign for "revivalism", rather than "reformism", as a bold assertion of Hindu identity. These developments signified the perennial dilemmas of Indian modernisation, which continued to be rooted in Indian traditions.
Thus, Option A is Correct
