Explanation:
Statement 1 is incorrect: It was Charter Act of 1813 that allowed the Christian missionaries to travel to India Prior to the 1813 Act, the Christian missionaries were banned from entering India for the fear of arousing political unrest due to their proseylitisation activity. Despite the ban, the missionaries continued to use various ingenuous means to arrive in India and work for the dissemination of the Western education and the consequent proseylitisation.
Statement 2 is incorrect: The early policy of the East India Company was that of non internvention in Indian social matters. Along with pragmatism that demanded continuation of existing systems, there was also a respect for traditional Indian culture that expressed itself in Warren Hasting's policy of Orientalism. The result of this endeavour was the establishment of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, the Calcutta Madrassa and the Sanskrit College of Benaras. Knowledge about the subject population, their social customs, manners and codes were regarded as a necessary prerequisite for developing permanent institutions of rule. However, with the end of the Hasting's tenure, there began cautious intervention in the Indian social institutions under the ideological influences from the Britain such as Evangelicalism, Utilitarianism and free trade thinking.
Statement 3 is correct: The beginning of western education in India can be dated from Charter Act of 1813, which provided for the allocation of one hundred thousand rupees per year for two specific purposes: first, ―the encouragement of the learned natives of India and the revival of and improvement of literature; secondly, the promotion of a knowledge of the sciences amongst the inhabitants of that country. The Act did not provide for the medium of instruction. The provision that the teaching of western sciences and literature through the medium of English language was provided by Lord Macaulay‘s minute, 1835.
Thus, Option C is Correct.
