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Karaikal (English: /kɑːɹaɪ̯kʌl/, Tamil: [kaːɾɐi̯kːaːl], French: Karikal /kaʁikal/) is a Municipality of the Indian Union Territory of Puducherry. [2] It is the administrative headquarters of the Karaikal District and the second most populated town in the Union Territory after Pondicherry .
The official standing of languages in Puducherry is governed by the 1963 assembly resolution to continue French as official language and the subsequent Pondicherry Official Language Act, 1965 which states under the heading "Official language of the Union territory" that Tamil is the language to be used for all or any official purposes in the Union Territory, while Malayalam and Telugu may be ...
Together with Chandernagor (already French since 1673), Mahé (since 1721), Yanam (since 1723), Karaikal (Karikal) (since 1739) and Masulipatam (1760), it formed the colony of French India, under a single French governor in Pondicherry, although French rule over one or more of these enclaves was repeatedly interrupted by British occupations.
Puducherry is a Union Territory of India, with four exclaved districts; Puducherry district and Karaikal district (surrounded by the state of Tamil Nadu), Mahé district (surrounded by the state of Kerala) and Yanam district (surrounded by the state of Andhra Pradesh), with Pondicherry district having the largest area and population and Mahe district having the smallest area and population.
Out of these, five communes are located in Puducherry district and the other five are located in Karaikal district. Puducherry is composed of three blocks, five municipalities, and ten communes. Puducherry and Karaikal have five communes each. The communes sub-divide into 98 village Panchayats.
On 1 November 1954, after long years of freedom struggle the de facto transfer (Vāstavikāntaraṇa) of the four enclaves of Pondicherry, Yanam, Mahé, and Karikal to India was achieved. The Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru , visited Puducherry on 16 January 1955.
Pondicherry (/ ˌ p ɒ n d ɪ ˈ tʃ ɛr i / ... Mahé, Yanam, Karaikal, and Chandernagor, even during the British period, until 1954. It was a reign of 138 years ...
Mahé district (English: /mɑːheɪ̯/) natively Mayyazhi (Malayalam: [mɐjːɐɻi]) is one of the four census districts of the union territory of Puducherry, India. ...