French India
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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
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)
"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 Hayes, Carlton J. H.
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 following details relating to the Indian cotton industry are supplied officially:— Cotton Mills in India, including Mills in Native States and French India.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" by Various
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