With reference to Indian history, consider the following statements :
- 1.The Dutch established their factories/warehouses 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 Vijayanagara empire.
Which of the statements given above are correct ?
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Answer: B. Statement 1 is wrong: the Dutch got land for their east coast factories, such as Masulipatnam (1605) and Pulicat, from the Golconda sultans and local rulers, not the Gajapatis, whose rule had ended by then. Statement 2 is correct: Albuquerque captured Goa from the Bijapur Sultanate in 1510. Statement 3 is correct: Francis Day got the Madras site in 1639 from Damarla Venkatadri Nayaka, a Vijayanagara representative. So 2 and 3.
Watch for: The Gajapatis of Odisha ruled the east coast earlier, which makes the Dutch link look plausible.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Wrong because the Dutch did not get land from the Gajapatis.
- C. Wrong because statement 1 is incorrect.
- D. Wrong because statement 1 is incorrect.
Source to check: Spectrum, A Brief History of Modern India, chapter on the advent of Europeans; Satish Chandra, History of Medieval India
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