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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 ]
It was S. Rangasamy Naicker in Karaikal who continued Gandhi’s freedom campaign in Pondicherry and the enclaves. “A significant role was played by V. Subbiah of the Communist Party in demanding independence of Indian settlements, while V.K. Krishna Menon was a principal instrument in the reunification of Pondicherry with independent India ...
The independence of India in 1947 gave impetus to the union of France's Indian possessions with former British India. An agreement between France and India in 1948 stipulated that the inhabitants of France's Indian possessions would choose their political future. The de jure union of French India with the Indian Union did not take place until 1962.
[2] One major instigator of the Carnatic wars was the Frenchman Joseph François Dupleix, who arrived in India in 1715, rising to become the French East India Company's governor in 1742. Dupleix sought to expand French influence in India, which was limited to a few trading outposts, the chief one being Pondicherry on the Coromandel Coast ...
Dupleix never recovered from this blow and was superseded in August 1754 by his director Godehou, who made an unfavourable settlement with the British.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 ...
2.6 Ambition of establishment of French territorial empire in India and defeat (1741–1754) 2.7 French vs British intrigues (1754–1871) 2.8 Independence movement (18th–20th century) and merger with India (1954)
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The Union Territory of Puducherry consists of four small unconnected districts: Puducherry district (293 km 2 or 113 sq mi), Karaikal district (161 km 2 or 62 sq mi) and Yanam district (20 km 2 or 7.7 sq mi) on the Bay of Bengal and Mahé district (9 km 2 or 3.5 sq mi) on the Laccadive Sea, covering a total area of 483 km 2 (186 sq mi).