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The Treaty of Pondicherry was signed in 1754 bringing an end to the Second Carnatic War. It was agreed and signed in the French settlement of Puducherry in French India . The favoured British candidate Mohamed Ali Khan Walajan was recognized as the Nawab of the Carnatic . [ 1 ]
Finally, the Instruments of Ratification of Treaty of Cession between India and France in respect of the settlements were exchanged on August 16, 1962. [3] The transitional period of eight years was used for “sorting out interests in the former colony” per a book called Pondicherry that was once French India written by historian Raphael ...
Dupleix never recovered from this blow and was superseded in August 1754 by his director Godehou, who made an unfavourable settlement with the British. On 26 December 1754, he signed the Treaty of Pondicherry with Thomas Saunders, the English East India Company 's resident at Madras , that forbade the British and French companies all political ...
Joseph François Dupleix, 14 January 1742 – 15 October 1754; Charles Godeheu, Le commissaire (Acting), 15 October 1754 – 1754; Georges Duval de Leyrit, 1756–1758; Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally, 1758 – January 1761; First British occupation, January 15, 1761 – June 25, 1765 — Treaty of Paris (1763) Jean Law de Lauriston, 1765–1766
Pondicherry from the origins to 1824 French Institute of Pondicherry Treaty establishing De Jure Cession of French Establishments in India Frenchbooksonindia.com, an open access multilingual discovery tool with book data from 1531 to 2020, full-text ebooks from 1531 to 1937 and in-text search from c. 1830 to c. 1920
The war ended with the Treaty of Pondicherry, signed in 1754, which recognised Muhammad Ali Khan Walajah as the Nawab of the Carnatic. Charles Godeheu replaced Dupleix, who died in poverty back in France. [2]
With the Treaty of Paris in 1763, the territories were returned to France. [14] The company was not able to maintain itself financially, and it was abolished in 1769. [ 14 ] King Louis XV issued a 1769 edict that required the company to transfer to the state all its properties, assets and rights, which were valued at 30 million livres.
The dispute erupted into violence in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in May 1754, during which Virginia militiamen under the command of 22-year-old George Washington ambushed a French patrol. [ 11 ] In 1755, six colonial governors met with General Edward Braddock , the newly arrived British Army commander, and planned a four-way attack on the French.