Joseph Marquis Dupleix was Governor-General of French India and rival of Robert Clive.
Joseph François Dupleix
Dupleix meeting the Subadar of the Deccan, Muzaffar Jung
Dupleix on Banque de l'Indochine banknote
Monument to Dupleix in Puducherry
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 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 inside other towns, but after 1816, the British denied all French claims to these, which were not reoccupied.
A portrait of Ananda Ranga Pillai
Colonial Yanaon
View of Pondicherry in the late 18th century
French factory (trading post) at Patna on the Ganges