Which of the following statement is/are correct about the Sanchi Stupa:

1) Rulers of Bhopal Shahjehan Begum and Sultan Jehan Begum provided money for preservation of the site.
2) John Marshall wrote volumes on Sanchi and dedicated the important ones to Sultan Jehan.
3) 19th Century Europeans were very interested in the Stupa.
4) Sanchi stupa was built by Satvahanas rulers.

Choose the correct answer from the given options:

Only 1, 2 and 3

The correct answer is Option 2 - Only 1, 2 and 3

1) Rulers of Bhopal Shahjehan Begum and Sultan Jehan Begum provided money for preservation of the site. (Correct)
2) John Marshall wrote volumes on Sanchi and dedicated the important ones to Sultan Jehan. (Correct)
3) 19th Century Europeans were very interested in the Stupa. (Correct)
4) Sanchi stupa was built by Satvahanas rulers.

Correction in statement 4: Sanchi Stupa was built by Ashoka and not Satvahanas. So Statement IV is wrong.

Nineteenth-century Europeans were very interested in the stupa at Sanchi. In fact, the French sought Shahjehan Begum’s permission to take away the eastern gateway, which was the best preserved, to be displayed in a museum in France. For a while some Englishmen also wanted to do the same, but fortunately both the French and the English were satisfied with carefully prepared plaster-cast copies and the original remained at the site, part of the Bhopal state.
The rulers of Bhopal, Shahjehan Begum and her successor Sultan Jehan Begum, provided money for the preservation of the ancient site. No wonder then that John Marshall dedicated his important volumes on Sanchi to Sultan Jehan.