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, which are now archived. 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