Notes for APPSC GROUP II (MAINS
EXAM.)2026
PAPER –I (150M)
SECTION- A
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF ANDHRA
PRADESH (75M)
(3)Advent of Europeans - Trade centers -
Andhra under the Company
ARRIVAL OF FRENCH
The Legacy of French Rule in India (1674 AD – 1954 AD
)
(Set 3)
Notes prepared by : Praturi Potayya Sarma
Please Note: The
following notes is for only guidance purpose. For clarification of any doubt,
please refer to any standard text book.
1)Who are the last European people to arrive in India ?
a)The French
2)When the French East India Company was formed to trade
with India ?
a)1664 AD
3)Who was the king ruling France in 1669 AD ?
a) King Louis XV
4)When the French established their first factory at
Surat ?
a) 1668 AD
5) When the French established their another factory at
Masaulipatam ?
a) 1669 AD
6)Who allowed the French to set up a township at
Chandernagore (West Bengal) in 1673 AD ?
a) Mughal Subedar of Bengal
7)When the French obtained a village called Pondicherry
from the Sultan of Bijapur ?
a)1674 AD
8)Where are the other French trade centres?
a)Mahe
b) Karakal
c)Balasor
d) Qasim Bazar
Ans : All the above
9)When the French East India Company took hold of Yanam ?
a) in 1723 AD
10)When the French East India Company took hold of Mahe
on Malabar Coast ?
a) In 1725 AD
11) When he French East India Company took hold of
Karaikal ?
a) in 1739 AD
12) In 1673 AD , the Campagnie des Indes Orientales
established an enclave in Pondicherry ?
Who is regarded as its founder ?
a)Francois Martin
13)In 1690 AD, the enclave of Chandernagore was founded
and whose original name was Chandannagar, ‘mmon-town’, so called because the
river in this place forms an arc in the
form of a crescent of the moon.
14)In 1721, the French obtained a piece of land at the
mouth of the Mahe river with the right to keep in place a garrison.
15)In 1731, an enclave was created in Yanam
16) Since 1701 , the importance of Pondicherry to the
Compagnie des Indes Orientales was recognized. It became a headquarter.
The Union Territory of Puducherry comprises of the erstwhile
French colonies viz. Puducherry, Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam. The Puducherry and
Karaikal regions are surrounded by the State of Tamilnadu, whereas Mahe is
surrounded by the State of Kerala and Yanam by the state of Andra Pradesh.
The foundation of Pondicherry was laid in the year 1673 after the
“La Compagnie française des Indes orientales” was successfully obtained firman
from the Qiladar of Valikondapurarm under the Sultan of Bijapur. On 4th
February 1673 a French Company Official by name Bellanger, took up residence in
the Danish Lodge in Pondicherry. In 1674, the French Company placed François
Martin as the first Governor and who initiated the ambitious project to
transform Pondicherry from a small fishing village into a flourishing
port-town.
In 1674 the Governor of “La Compagnie française des Indes
orientales” (French East India Company) François Martin, set up a trading centre
at Pondicherry and this outpost eventually became the chief French settlement
in India. Wars were raged among the European companies for their share of trade
with India. Consequently, Pondicherry was captured by the Dutch in 1693 but was
returned to French company by the Treaty of Ryswick in 1699. During the period
from 1720-1738the French company acquired Mahe, Yanam and Karaikal. In the
period of Anglo-French wars from 1742 to1763 Puducherry changed hands and in
1761 the British “East India Company” captured Puducherry from the French and
restored the French Company administration by the Treaty of Paris in 1763.
During the French Revolution in the year 1793 the British “East
India Company” took control of the region and returned to the French “East
India Company” in 1814. However, when the British “East India Company” gained
control of the whole of India in the late 1850s, they allowed the French “East
India Company” to retain their settlements at Pondicherry, Mahe, Yanam,
Karaikal and Chandronagor.
In 1947, the independence of India gave impetus for the union of
France’s Indian possessions with former British India and an agreement between
French Government and India Government, in 1948, stipulated that the
inhabitants of France’s Indian possessions would choose their political future.
On a de facto basis, the bureaucracy had been united with India’s on 1 November
1954 and the de jure union of French India with the Indian Union took place in
the year 1963. In the process Chandronagor opted to be merged with the State of
West Bengal and Pondicherry along with Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam was constituted
as a Union Territory in the Indian Union.
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