With reference to the entry of European powers into India, which one of the following statements is NOT correct ?

The Portuguese captured Goa in 1499

The English opened their first factory in South India at MasulipatamIn

Eastern India, the English Company opened its first factory in Orissa in 1633

Under the leadership of Duplex, the Frenchoccupied Madras in 1746

With reference to the entry of European powers into India, The Portuguese captured Goa in 1499, this statement is incorrect.

The East India Company (also the East India Trading Company, English East India Company, and then the British East India Company) was an early English joint-stock company that was formed initially for pursuing trade with the East Indies, but that ended up trading with the Indian subcontinent and China. The oldest among several similarly formed European East India Companies, the Company was granted an English Royal Charter, under the name Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies, by Elizabeth I on 31 December 1600. After a rival English company challenged its monopoly in the late 17th century, the two companies were merged in 1708 to form the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies, commonly styled the Honourable East India Company,[5] and abbreviated, HEIC; the Company was colloquially referred to as John Company, and in India as Company Bahadur.