Discussion
In the context of Masulipatnam, which had contacts with distant lands for trade, choose the appropriate options :
(a) In the 17th Century, both the Dutch and English East India Companies attempted to control Masulipatnam as it became the most important port on the Andhra Coast.
(b) Dutch were people from distant lands of Denmark and Spain.
(c) The competition between trading groups such as the Golconda nobler, Persian merchants, Telugu Komati Chettis and European traders made the city prosperous.
(d) Mir Jumla, the Mughal governor began to play off the Dutch and the English against each other.
Answer: B
The appropriate statements are (c), (d), (a) only.
The NCERT history textbook says that in the seventeenth century both the Dutch and English East India Companies tried to control Masulipatnam, which had become the most important port on the Andhra coast; that competition among the Golconda nobles, Persian merchants, Telugu Komati Chettis and European traders made the city populous and prosperous; and that the Mughal governor Mir Jumla, himself a merchant, began to play off the Dutch and the English against each other.
Statement (b) is wrong. The Dutch came from the Netherlands, not from Denmark and Spain, so every option including (b) is wrong.
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