Who among the following supported western education for Indians in the early nineteenth century?

Raja Ram Mohan Roy championed western and scientific education for Indians in the early nineteenth century.

Lord Hardinge was a colonial administrator, not the figure noted for this early advocacy.

Mahatma Gandhi belongs to a much later period and stressed basic, craft-centred education instead.

Rabindranath Tagore, also later, promoted a distinctive nature-based learning at Santiniketan.

Roy pressed for teaching modern science, mathematics and English over purely classical studies.

He opposed a plan to fund a purely Sanskrit college in his well-known letter of 1823.