French India

American  

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.

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French India British  

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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Example Sentences

In the words of Gulf scholar Paul Rich, this was "the Indian Empire's last redoubt, just as Goa was Portuguese India's last solitary vestige, or Pondicherry was the tag-end of French India".

From BBC

In French India, the young son of a zoo owner collects world religions the way other kids collect stamps.

From The Guardian

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg