UPSC Prelims 2022 · GS Paper 1 · Q49
History
Medium · Portuguese, Dutch and English Trading Settlements in India
Consider the following statements regarding early European trading settlements in India:
1. Afonso de Albuquerque captured Goa from the Bijapur Sultanate.
2. The English East India Company acquired its site for a factory at Madras through a lease from a local representative of the Vijayanagara Empire.
3. The Dutch established their east-coast trading factories on land granted by Gajapati rulers of Odisha.
How many of the statements given above are correct?