Maps of India
Rail Map of Pondicherry
Hearing the word Pondicherry for the first time won’t make you think that it is a place found in India. Derived from the Tamil word Puducheri, which means the new settlement, is a union comprising the four former colonies of French India—on the eastern, or Coromandel coast, the enclaves of Pondicherry and Karaikal in Tamil Nadu state, and Yanam in Andhra Pradesh state; and on the south-west coast, the enclave of Mahe in Kerala state.
Established by the French East India Company in 1674, it was handed over to the French government along with Mahe, Yanam and Karaikal in 1769. It was in 1962 that the four territories were administratively united. |
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The Pondicherry town has a strong French influence in its culture especially on its architectural structures. During the second decade of the century, the territory became more famous because of its relation to Sri Aurobindo, a political revolutionary, who made the harmonious and peaceful place his home until the last of his life. |
