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 ?

Statement 1 is incorrect. While the Dutch established factories on the east coast (Coromandel Coast), major settlements like Pulicat and Masulipatnam were primarily under the control of local rulers such as the Nayaks, the Qutb Shahis of Golconda, and later the Nawabs of Arcot/Carnatic. Gajapati rulers were significant further north in Odisha, but attributing the general establishment of Dutch factories on the entire east coast to land grants from them is inaccurate. Statement 2 is correct. Alfonso de Albuquerque, the second Governor of Portuguese India, captured Goa from the Sultan of Bijapur (Yusuf Adil Shah) in 1510, establishing it as the capital of Portuguese India. Statement 3 is correct. The English East India Company obtained the site of Madraspatnam in 1639 from Damarla Venkatadri Nayaka, a local chieftain who was a representative of the Vijayanagara Empire (under Peda Venkata Raya III). They built Fort St. George there.