Civil Services Examination · प्रश्न 59
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?
उत्तर देखें और व्याख्या
उत्तर: (B) 2 and 3 only
व्याख्या
Albuquerque took Goa from Bijapur in 1510, and Madras land was granted by Damarla Venkatadri Nayaka, a Vijayanagara representative (1639). Dutch east coast factories (Masulipatnam, Pulicat) were granted by Golconda/Vijayanagara rulers, not the Gajapatis.