Explanation:

One of the major reasons for the revolt was socio-religious policies of the British which included racial superiority and discrimination, missionary activities and deliberate efforts to subvert the religious beliefs of the people in India.

Socio-religious conditions prevailing in pre-revolt times:

• Indian society was divided on the basis of religion, language, and castes. The Hindu society was divided into four varnas and multiple sub-castes. The Hindu society was over-sensitive to the ideas of purity, and severe restrictions were imposed by caste rules.
• Religion was considered as the most sacrosanct identity among Indians. By and large, there were many orthodox principles governing religious practices in India. Indians were assumed to have been a deeply conservative people whose traditions and ways of life had been disregarded by their British rulers. Reforms, new laws, new technology, even Christianity, had been forced upon them.
• Statement 1 is correct: The conservative religious and social sentiments of many people were hurt by some of the humanitarian measures which government took on the advice of Indian reformers such as abolition of practice of Sati, permission of Widow remarriage, opening of Western education to girls. It was considered as an interference in their faith and values. With regard to the the female education it was practically unknown and there was no public institution for this purpose. There was a superstitious idea that a girl taught to read and write would soon afte rmarrying become a widow
• Statement 2 is correct: Religious sentiments were also hurt by the official policy of taxing the lands belonging to temples and mosques which had been exempted from taxation by previous Indian rulers.
• Statement 3 is not correct: Rediscovery of India's past by Europeans scholars, gave a pyschological boost to educated Indians later and it has nothing to do with 1857 revolt.