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?