UPSC Prelims 2022 Question:

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?

Explanation

• Gajapati rulers in Odisha lasted from 1434 to 1541. Dutch factories established on the eastern coast are: Masulipattanam (1605), Pulicat (1610), Bimilipatam/Bhimunipatnam (1641), Chinsura (1653). So, statement 1 is not correct.
  
  
• Afonso de Albuquerque captured Goa for Portuguese in 1510 from Adil Shahi rulers of Bijapur. So, statement 2 is correct.
  
  
• In 1639, the English East India Company (EIC) received permission from local Raja Darmala Venkatadri Nayaka to establish a factory at Madras. Fort Saint George built in 1640. Madras was the first piece of land leased by the EIC, and significantly without any war but through friendship and negotiation. Raja Darmala Venkatadri was a representative of the Vijayanagara Empire. So, statement 3 is correct.
  
  

Therefore, option (2) is the correct answer.

Subject: History|Advent of Europeans in India