INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -James Prinsep, a British antiquary and colonial administrator was the first person to decipher Ashoka’s edicts. These Ashoka’s inscriptions are the first tangible evidence of Buddhism. They were kept in public places and along trade routes so that the maximum number of people would read them.

Detailed explanation-2: -James Princep in India was an administrator in the mint of the British East India Company. The main contribution of James Princep to the development of Indian epigraphy can be seen in terms that he was the first person who deciphered the Brahmi and Kharosthi scripts. Hence, statement 1 is correct.