French India
Americannoun
noun
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She is born in Pondicherry, in French India.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
In the words of Gulf scholar Paul Rich, this was "the Indian Empire's last redoubt, just as Goa was Portuguese India's last solitary vestige, or Pondicherry was the tag-end of French India".
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2025
Messrs. Law and Chevalier, governors in French India, determined to send a vessel at their own risk to trade in the southern seas.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Léon Benett
"French India" to-day consists of Pondicherry, Karikal, Yanaon, Mahé, and Chandarnagar—196 square miles in all,—while the Indian Empire of Britain spreads over an area of 1,800,000 square miles.
From A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Carlton J. H. Hayes
Algeria is now safely French; India has been British for more than a century and a half.
From American World Policies by Walter E. Weyl
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