Pondicherry
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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By 1778, the British and French were fighting over Pondicherry on India’s southeastern coast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 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
The staging transitions in dreamlike fashion from the hospital to Pondicherry, India, where Pi grew up in a happy, hectic ferment of adolescence.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025
The British defeated the French forces in 1761, however, when they captured Pondicherry, the most important French outpost in India.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
There seemed to be a single file of nit-picking bureaucrats from Pondicherry to Minneapolis via Delhi and Washington, each with his form, his problem, his hesitation.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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