Pondicherry

Pondicherry
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Presidency: Madras
Coordinates:	11.845116°N 79.875241°E
Altitude:	0 m (0 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name:	Puducherry
State/Province:	Indian Union Territory of Puducherry
Country:	India
Transport links
Pondicherry Railway

Pondicherry was formerly a French colony founded by Francois Martin in 1674.

History

• Siege of Pondicherry 1748
• Capture of Pondicherry 1761
• Battle of Pondicherry 1778
• Battle of Pondicherry 1793

Records

• See French

External links

• Jean-Claude Féray has compiled an excellent series of webpages on French genealogy in Pondicherry. The site is in French, but the lists of names will be comprehensible to non-French-speakers. Here are some of them:
  • History of Pondicherry
  • Useful addresses for family history in Pondicherry
  • List of voters in Pondicherry 1792
  • Census of Pondicherry 1797
• This India List post says that the Pondicherry archives are in the "Centre des Archives d'Outre-Mer" (CAOM) in the city of Aix en Provence, France
• "Pondicherry – A bit of France in India" by Sunayana Panda confluence.org.uk