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Correct Answer: Option (A) — The Portuguese captured Goa in 1499.
Concept & Option Breakdown
Standard Reference Verified- Statement (a) is incorrect: Afonso de Albuquerque captured Goa from the Sultan of Bijapur in 1510, not 1499.
- Statement (b) is correct: The English established their first South Indian factory at Masulipatnam in 1611.
- Statement (c) is correct: In eastern India, the English set up their first factory at Hariharpur and Balasore in Odisha in 1633.
- Statement (d) is correct: During the First Carnatic War, French forces under Dupleix and La Bourdonnais captured Madras in 1746 (later returned via the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748).
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