The area joined the towns of Chandernagor, Mahé, Yanam Karaikal and Masulipatam in the colony of French India. Today's Government of Puducherry markets the city online as the "quintessence of ...

Founded in 1600 as a trading enterprise, the English East India company gradually transformed into a colonial power. By the late 18th Century, as it tightened its grip on India, company officials ...

French Arrival and initial years in India: The last European people to arrive in India were the French. The French East India Company was formed in 1664 AD during the reign of King Louis XIV to ...

While French is spoken in a number of former colonies in Africa, it's also spoken in the town of Pondicherry, India. While the number of speakers there are increasingly outnumbered by those ...