UPSC Prelims 2022 · Question 59 of 98
UPSC Prelims 2022 question on Dutch Factories India
- ExamUPSC CSE
- Year2022
- PaperGeneral Studies Paper I
- SubjectModern History
- TopicAdvent of Europeans in India
- DifficultyHard
- TypeStatement
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?
Show answer
Answer: B. 2 and 3 only
Verdict
Correct statements: 2 and 3 → Option (b).
Statement by statement
Statement 1 – INCORRECT: The Hindu Gajapati rulers (c. 1435–1541 CE) ruled over Kalinga (Odisha), large parts of Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal, and the eastern and central parts of Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand. The Dutch founded their first factory in Masaulipatam in Andhra Pradesh in 1605 — the lands there were NOT granted by Gajapati rulers at that time (the Gajapati kingdom had ended by 1541).
Statement 2 – CORRECT: Alfonso de Albuquerque served as viceroy of Portuguese India from 1509 to 1515. Albuquerque acquired Goa from the Sultan of Bijapur in 1510 with ease; the principal port of the Sultan of Bijapur became 'the first bit of Indian territory to be under the Europeans since the time of Alexander the Great'.
Statement 3 – CORRECT: The English East India Company entered Madras and entered a treaty with the native chieftains of the land. The Company established a factory in Madras in 1639 on land leased from representatives of Vijayangara Empire called the Nayakas.