Pondicherry
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Pondicherry, officially known as Puducherry, is the capital and most populous city of the Union Territory of Puducherry in India. The city is in the Puducherry district on the southeast coast of India
Pondicherry Rock beach aerial view
Manakula Vinayagar Temple 2K22TNKAN
Aurobindo Ashram Pondichery Outside view
The Matrimandir in Auroville, Tamil Nadu, India
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
Pondicherry
…by the Sultan of Bijapur. In 1674, the French East India Company set up a trading centre at Pondicherry, and this outpost eventually became the chief French settlement in India. The French governor François Martin made remarkable improvements to the city and its commercial ties, facing at the same time strong opposition from…
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