The correct answer is Colonel Colin Mackenzie.Colonel Colin MackenzieThe ruins at Hampi were brought to light in 1800 by an engineer and antiquarian named Colonel Colin Mackenzie. Hence, Option 1 is correct.An employee of the English East India Company, he prepared the first survey map of the site.Most of the initial information he received was based on the memories of priests of the Virupaksha temple and the shrine of Pampadevi.Subsequently, from 1856, photographers began to record the monuments which enabled scholars to study them.As early as 1836 epigraphists began collecting several dozen inscriptions found at this and other temples at Hampi.Colin Mackenzie was appointed as the first Surveyor General of India in 1815.Additional InformationJames PrinsepHe was the founding editor of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.He was known for deciphering the Brahmi and Kharosthi scripts.James RenellHe was an English Geographer known for constructing the first accurate map of India.William JonesAsiatic Society of Bengal, a scholarly society founded on Jan.15, 1784, by Sir William Jones.