Explanation:

In 1602, the United East India Company of the Netherlands was formed and given permission by the Dutch government to trade in the East Indies including India. The Dutch founded their first factory in Masaulipatam in Andhra Pradesh in 1605. They went on to establish trading centers in different parts of India and thus became a threat to the Portuguese. They captured Nagapatam near Madras (Chennai) from the Portuguese and made it their main stronghold in South India. 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. Gajapati means “king with an army of elephants”. In c. 1435 CE, Kapilendra Deva founded the Gajapati dynasty and last ruler of this dynasty was Prataparudra Deva. Hence statement 1 is not correct.

Alfonso de Albuquerque served as viceroy of Portuguese India from 1509 to 1515. He was the real founder of the Portuguese power in the East, a task he completed before his death. He secured for Portugal the strategic control of the Indian Ocean by establishing bases overlooking all the entrances to the sea.

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”. Hence statement 2 is correct.

British’s East India Company had entered the then Madras and entered a treaty with the native chieftains of the land to choose the site of their choice to settle and trade. Company established a factory in Madras in 1639 on land leased from representatives of Vijayanagara Empire called the Nayakas. Originally an uninhabited land, Francis Day and his superior Andrew Cogan of the British East India Company can be considered the founders of Madras, finally zeroed in on this coastal town and began construction of St George Fort and houses for their residence on 23 April 1640. Hence statement 3 is correct.