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INDIA -
INDEPENDENCE STRUGGLE - FRENCH INDIA |
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Date-wise Events |
- February 04, 1673:
Bellanger, a French officer, took up residence in the Danish
Lodge in Pondichéry, thereby commencing the French
administration of Pondichéry.
- 1693: The Dutch captured
Pondichéry and augmented the fortifications.
- September 20, 1697: The
French regained the town in 1699 through the Treaty of
Ryswick, signed on this day.
- January 25, 1871: By a
decree of this day, French India decided to have an elective
general council and elective local councils.
- August 15, 1947: The
Independence of India on this day, gave impetus to the union
of France's Indian possessions with former British India.
- October 1947: The lodges in
Machilipatnam, Kozhikode and Surat were ceded to India.
- 1948: An agreement between
France and India agreed to an election in France's remaining
Indian possessions to choose their political future.
- May 02, 1950: Governance of
Chandernagore was ceded to India on this day.
- October 02, 1955:
Chandernagore was merged with West Bengal state on this day.
- November 01, 1954: The four
enclaves of Pondichéry, Yanam, Mahe, and Karikal were de
facto transferred to the Indian Union and became the Union
Territory of Puducherry.
- 1962: The de jure union of
French India with India did not take place until 1962, when
the French Parliament in Paris ratified the treaty with
India.
- December 15, 1946: French
India Representative Assembly Election - First Election:
The first election to the Representative Assembly of French
India was held on this day. The election was won by the
National Democratic Front of Deiva Zivarattinam, that won 30
out of 44 seats.
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Description |
- French India was a French colony comprising
geographically separate enclaves on the Indian subcontinent.
- The possessions were originally acquired by the French
East India Company beginning in the second half of the 17th
century, and were de facto incorporated into the Union of
India in 1950 and 1954.
- The French establishments included Pondichéry, Karikal
and Yanaon on the Coromandel Coast, Mahé on the Malabar
Coast and Chandernagor in Bengal.
- In 1936, the population of the colony totalled 298,851
inhabitants, of which 63% (187,870) lived in the territory
of Pondichéry.
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