Colony of France (1664–1946) Overseas Territory of France (1946–1954)
Capital
Pondichéry
Common languages
French (de jure)[1] Tamil Telugu
Government
Colonial administration
Governor
• 1668–1673
François Caron (first)[2]
• 1954
Georges Escaragueil[3]
Legislature
Representative Assembly of French India
History
• First French East India Company Commissioner of Surat
1664
• De facto transfer
1 November 1954
Area
1936
510 km2 (200 sq mi)
Population
• 1936
298,861
Currency
French Indian Rupee
Preceded by
Succeeded by
French East India Company
Puducherry (union territory)
West Bengal
Today part of
India
Colonial India
Imperial entities of India
Austrian India
1778–1785
Swedish India
1731–1813
Dutch India
1605–1825
Danish India
1620–1869
French India
1668–1954
Portuguese India (1505–1961)
Casa da Índia
1434–1833
Portuguese East India Company
1628–1633
British India (1600–1947)
EIC in India
1600–1757
Company rule in India
1757–1858
British rule in Portuguese India
1797–1813
British Raj
1858–1947
British rule in Burma
1824–1948
Princely states
1721–1949
Partition of India
1947
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French India, formally the Établissements français dans l'Inde[a] (English: French Settlements in India), was a French colony comprising five geographically separated enclaves on the Indian subcontinent that had initially been factories of the French East India Company. They were de facto incorporated into the Republic of India in 1950 and 1954. The enclaves were Pondichéry, Karikal, Yanam on the Coromandel Coast, Mahé on the Malabar Coast and Chandernagor in Bengal. The French also possessed several loges ('lodges', tiny subsidiary trading stations) inside other towns, but after 1816, the British denied all French claims to these, which were not reoccupied.
By 1950, the total area measured 510 km2 (200 sq mi), of which 293 km2 (113 sq mi) belonged to the territory of Pondichéry. In 1936, the population of the colony totalled 298,851 inhabitants, of which 63% (187,870) lived in the territory of Pondichéry.[4]
^Not as widespread as English
^as Commissioner
^as High Commissioner
^Jacques Weber, Pondichéry et les comptoirs de l'Inde après Dupleix, Éditions Denoël, Paris, 1996, p. 347.
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