French India

French Settlements in India Établissements français dans l'Inde (French)
1664–1954
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French India (shaded in white) after 1815
Status	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]

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