Colonial India
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Colonial India was the part of the Indian subcontinent that was occupied by European colonial powers during and after the Age of Discovery. European power was exerted both by conquest and trade, espec
Bernardo Peres da Silva, the only ethnic Indian governor general in Colonial India
Ruins of the Portuguese built St Thomas Fort at Tangasseri in Kollam city, est. in 1518
Coat of Arms of the Pintos, the ethnic Goan family that had the first anti-colonial revolt in India.
Eustachius De Lannoy of the Dutch East India Company surrenders to Maharaja Marthanda Varma of the Kingdom of Travancore after the Battle of Colachel (Depiction at Padmanabhapuram Palace).
French India
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French India, formally the Établissements français dans l'Inde, was a French colony comprising five geographically separated enclaves on the Indian subcontinent that had initially been factories of th
A portrait of Ananda Ranga Pillai
View of Pondicherry in the late 18th century
French factory (trading post) at Patna on the Ganges
Governor's Garden at Pondicherry, 18th century