Attempt this previous-year question. The correct option stays hidden until you choose.
With reference to Indian history, consider the following statements:
1. The Dutch established their factories/werehouses on the east coast on lands granted to them by Gajapati rulers.
2. Alfonso de Albuquerque captured Goa from the Bijapur Sultanate.
3. The English East India Company established a factory at Madras on a plot of land leased from a representative of the Vijayanagaraempire.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
Pick an option to check yourself.
• Correct Answer: B
• Dutch established factories in 1605, well after Gajapati decline (c. 1541).
• Albuquerque captured Goa from Bijapur Sultanate in 1510.
• English EIC leased Madras land from Damarla Venkatadri Nayaka, a Vijayanagara representative, in 1639. Statements 2 and 3 are correct; statement 1 is anachronistic.
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