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Key facts
- 1936
- 510 km (200 sq mi)
- 1954
- Georges Escaragueil
- Status
- Colony of France (1664–1946), Overseas Territory of France (1946–1954)
- Capital
- Pondichéry
- Common languages
- French ( de jure ) , Bengali , Malayalam , Tamil , Telugu
- 1668 1673
- François Caron (first)
- Legislature
- Representative Assembly of French India
- De facto transfer
- 1 November 1954
- Currency
- French Indian rupee
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Today part ofIndia
Portuguese India (1505–1961)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “French India” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.