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Pondicherry, somewhat like Russian nesting dolls, is a city within a district within a Union Territory (UT), all sharing the same name. The UT of Pondicherry comprises four geographically distinct districts that were former French colonies: Pondicherry, Karaikal, Yenam and Mahe. Of these, the…
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Pondicherry, established in the seventeenth-century as a trading outpost of the French East India Company, evolved into France’s most enduring colonial settlement on the Coromandel Coast. Though controlled at various intervals by the Dutch and the British, it remained under French administration…
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