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UPSC Prelims 2022 Paper-1 📅 05 Jun, 2022

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?

A
(a) 1 and 2 only
B
(b) 2 and 3 only
C
(c) 1 and 3 only
D
(d) 1, 2 and 3
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UPSC Prelims
2022 • 05 Jun, 2022 • Paper-1
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?
Correct Answer
(b) 2 and 3 only
Timeline Mismatch: Statement 1 is historically false. The once-powerful Gajapati dynasty of Odisha fully collapsed in the mid-16th century (around 1541). The Du......
Ref/Book : UPSC Prelims 2022
Ref. Subject History
Chapter -
Ref. Topic Modern History
Pg. No -
💡 Analysis & Explanation
Timeline Mismatch ▼
Statement 1 is historically false. The once-powerful Gajapati dynasty of Odisha fully collapsed in the mid-16th century (around 1541). The Dutch East India Company (VOC) only arrived later and established their earliest major factories (like Pulicat in 1610) on the Coromandel Coast by securing grants from the Qutb Shahi rulers of Golconda and local Nayakas, long after the Gajapatis vanished.
Portuguese Conquest ▼
Statement 2 is correct. In a decisive military stroke in 1510, the Portuguese governor Alfonso de Albuquerque successfully attacked and captured the highly strategic port city of Goa from the Adil Shahi dynasty of the Bijapur Sultanate.
British Expansion ▼
Statement 3 is correct. In 1639, Francis Day of the English EIC secured a lease for the fishing village of Madraspatnam from Damarla Venkatapathy Nayaka, a local chieftain who served as a nominal representative of the waning, relocated Vijayanagara Empire (ruling from Chandragiri).
Conclusion ▼
Only statements 2 and 3 reflect accurate colonial and regional history.
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