French India

American  

noun

1. the five small former French territories in India, including Chandernagor, Karikal, Pondicherry, and Yanaon on the E coast, and Mahé on the W coast.

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French India British  

noun

1. a former French overseas territory in India, including Chandernagore and Pondicherry (now Puducherry): restored to India between 1949 and 1954

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French India

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

This "Ezourveidam" was lastly translated by a Brahmin, correspondent of the unfortunate French India Company.

From Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire

In this way the loss of French India and French America, things of the old monarchy, were to be compensated.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 by Various

The Mississippi Company was granted the monopoly of all trade to the East Indies, China, the South Seas, and all the territories of the French India Company, and of the Senegal Company.

From The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages by Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor)

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 Benett, Léon