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French India

noun

  1. the five small former French territories in India, including Chandernagor, Karikal, Pondicherry, and Yanaon on the E coast, and Mahé on the W coast.


French India

noun

  1. a former French overseas territory in India, including Chandernagore and Pondicherry (now Puducherry): restored to India between 1949 and 1954
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In French India, the young son of a zoo owner collects world religions the way other kids collect stamps.

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One evil which it avoids is the so-called representative system, under which senators and deputies are sent to the French parliament not only from Algeria as an integral part of France, but from the colonies of Martinique, Guadeloupe and French India, while Cochin-China, Guiana and Senegal send deputies alone.

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Algeria is now safely French; India has been British for more than a century and a half.

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The following details relating to the Indian cotton industry are supplied officially:— Cotton Mills in India, including Mills in Native States and French India.

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The Mississippi Company was granted the monopoly of all trade to the East Indies, China, the South Seas, and all the territories of the French India Company, and of the Senegal Company.

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