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?

Option (B) is correct because Alfonso de Albuquerque captured Goa from the Sultan of Bijapur in 1510, and the English East India Company established Fort St. George at Madras in 1639 on land leased from the Nayakas of Chandragiri, who were subordinates of the Vijayanagara Empire. Statement 1 is incorrect because the Gajapati dynasty of Odisha had declined by the mid-16th century, long before the Dutch established their first factories on the east coast in the early 17th century (e.g., Masulipatnam in 1605). The core concept tested is the chronological and political intersection between the arrival of European trading companies and the specific Indian regional powers they interacted with for territorial concessions.