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
The French community in India consists mainly of Indian citizens of French ancestry who are descended from former French settlers and colonists who settled in the Indian subcontinent since the 17th ce
Building of the École française d'Extrême-Orient in Pondicherry
The Matrimandir, initiated by The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram