10 Facts About French India

1.

French India, formally the, was a French colony comprising five geographically separated enclaves on the Indian Subcontinent that initially been factories of the French East India Company.

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2.

The French India possessed several inside other towns, but after 1816, the British denied all French India claims to these, which were not reoccupied.

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3.

Six decades after the foundation of the English and Dutch East India companies, and at a time when both companies were multiplying factories on the shores of India, the French still did not have a viable trading company or a single permanent establishment in the East.

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4.

In 1667 the French India Company sent out another expedition, under the command of Francois Caron, which reached Surat in 1668 and established the first French factory in India.

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5.

In 1672, Fort Saint Thomas was taken but the French India were driven out by the Dutch after a long and costly siege.

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6.

In 1673, the French India acquired the area of Pondicherry from the qiladar of Valikondapuram under the Sultan of Bijapur, and thus the foundation of Pondichery was laid.

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7.

The French India, though, found themselves in continual conflict with the Dutch and the English.

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8.

In spite of a treaty between the British and French agreeing not to interfere in regional Indian affairs, their colonial intrigues continued.

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9.

The French India expanded their influence at the court of the Nawab of Bengal and increased their trading activity in Bengal.

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10.

In 1756, the French India encouraged the Nawab to attack and take the British Fort William in Calcutta.

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