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'''ChandernagorChandernagore''' was formerly a [[French]] colony and is situated about 30km north of the centre of [[Calcutta]] straddling the Hugli River.

The French arrived in 1673. It Chandernagore became Bengal’s a larger trading centre - bigger than neighbouring [[Calcutta]]. Its importance fell after being taken by the British. [[Robert Clive|Colonel Robert Clive ]] of Brittish the British [[East India Company Limited ]] and Admiral Watson captured Chandannagar Chandernagore in the [[Battle of Chandernagore 1757]] . Control was returned to the French in 1816 , where it remianed remained until independanceindependence.

[http://wwwfibis.search.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_componentslist_sources&idsource_class=374 169 Chandernagore Civil Marriage Index 1831-1864]<br>[http://www.searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_componentslist_sources&idsource_class=375 167 Chandernagore Civil Birth Registration Index 1831-1864]<br>[http://www.searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_componentslist_sources&idsource_class=376 168 Chandernagore Civil Death Registration Indexes 1831-1899]

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandannagar Chandannagar] Wikipedia<br>*Jean-Claude Féray website, “The French in Chandernagor” is now an archived website. Unfortunately only parts of the site appear to have been archived and these are the pages**[http://web.archive.org/web/20100831045207/http://chandernagor.ifrance.com/cimeti.html Quelques personnes notables du cimetière européen de Chandernagor]**[http://web.archive.org/web/20100801045025/http://chandernagor.ifrance.com/ The French in gouv-dupleix.html Liste des administrateurs, des employés et des militaires de la Compagnie pendant le gouvernement de Dupleix à Chandernagor(1731-1741)] Jean**[http://web.archive.org/web/20100801044934/http://chandernagor.ifrance.com/1778.html 1778 : liste de sujets français désirant s'embarquer pour l'île Maurice sur un cartel anglais]**[http://web.archive.org/web/20100801045029/http://chandernagor.ifrance.com/listef1813.html Liste des sujets français vivant à en 1813. (Extrait du Calcutta-Claude Féray website<br>Annual Directory) ]**[http://web.archive.org/web/20100801045052/http://chandernagor.ifrance.com/table.html Table des registres de Mariage de l'Eglise Saint Louis de Chandernagor d'août 1814 à février 1818]*[http://pagesperso-orange.fr/henri.maurel/chandernagoreN1.htm "Chandernagore Birth Records 1835 -1900"] (French site)<br>*Prof. Frances Pritchett's [http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1600_1699/french/chandernagore/chandernagore.html Chandernagore] contains a report from Chandernagore in the 'Mercury' of Sept. 1698, about political/military intrigues in the Hooghly area, together with illustrations of Chandernagore*[http://www.chandernagorheritage.com/place.html Chandernagor Heritage: Places of interest] chandernagorheritage.com[[Category:Locations]]*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160120134426/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120715/jsp/calcutta/story_15730606.jsp Our heritage, their heritage] Sunday, July 15, 2012 ''The Telegraph, Calcutta'', now an archived webpage. Heritage buildings in [[Serampore]] and Chandernagore*[http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=CREST&BaseHref=TCRM%2F2013%2F07%2F20&PageLabel=16&EntityId=Ar01501&ViewMode=HTML "Town Of The Crescent Moon"] by Priya Ganapathy & Anurag Mallick July 20, 2013 ''Times of India'' Crest Edition. [http://redscarabtravelandmedia.wordpress.com/2013/07/24/chandernagore-town-of-the-crescent-moon Same article, additional photographs] from the authors’ website.*[http://rangandatta.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/chandannagar-a-slice-of-france/ "Chandannagar ~ A slice of France"] March 14, 2012. Rangan Datta. ===Historical books online===*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.500671/2015.500671.Bengal-Past#page/n95/mode/2up "Echoes from Old Chandernagore"] page 343 ''Bengal Past and Present'' Volume 2, July 1908. Archive.org/Digital Library of India Collection.*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.500674/2015.500674.Bengal-Past#page/n101/mode/2up "A Note on Slaves and Slavery in Old Chandernagore"] by Charu Chandra Rav, page 257 ''Bengal Past and Present'' Volume 6, July-Dec 1910. Archive.org/DLI Collection.{{#widget:Google PlusOne|size=small|count=true}}