UPSC Prelims GS - 2022

Question 59
EASYCorrect: +2Incorrect: -2

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 Vijayangara empire.
Which of the statements given above are correct?

    a
    1 and 2 only
    b
    2 and 3 only
    c
    1 and 3 only
    d
    1, 2 and 3