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  Pondicherry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
When the British gained control of the whole of India in the late 1850s, they allowed the French to retain their settlements in the country.
Pondicherry, Mahe, Yanam, Karaikal and Chandernagar remained a part of French India until 1954.
The independence of India in 1947 gave impetus to the union of France's Indian possessions with former British India.
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 British East India Company - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Robert Clive, the Governor General, led the Company to an astounding victory against Joseph François Dupleix, the commander of the forces in India, and recaptured Fort St George from the French.
By the Treaty of Paris (1763), the French were forced to maintain their trade posts in small enclaves in Pondicherry, Mahe, Karikal, Yanam, and Chandernagar without any military presence.
Although these small outposts remained French possessions for the next two hundred years, French ambitions on Indian territories were effectively laid to rest, thus eliminating a major source of economic competition for the Company.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /british_east_india_company.htm   (3396 words)

  
 Howrah’s failure, Mumbai’s success   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Firstly, the locomotive and the carriages for both the trains of Bombay and Howrah were despatched from England almost at the same time, but the ship, HMS Goodwin, carrying the loco for EIR was misdirected to Australia and the other carrying the carriages for Howrah sank at Sandheads near Sagar Island.
The other problem was that the line was aligned through Chandernagar (Chandannagar) which was a French territory at that time.
At the Howrah end, the station was consisted of a small tin shed and a single line flanked by a narrow platform.
www.bengalonthenet.com /community/misc/howrah.shtml   (1260 words)

  
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Michael moves to Calcutta to take charge of the Armenian College (school) there, one of the leading educational institutions in the city when it was home to a few thousand Armenians, almost all of whom have migrated to Australia or parts westwards since the 1970s.
The few hundred Armenians left in Calcutta keep service going in the city's three churches of the Armenian Orthodoxy and the one in Chandernagar, service being held in each by turn on Sundays.
These numbers, have, however, not been enough to sustain the school, which in its heyday - and when the Armenian Club was as lively - produced some of the best rugby teams in India.
www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2004041900210300.htm&date=2004/04/19/&prd=mp&   (395 words)

  
 chandernagar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Chandernagar (35 km) is the former French settlement that still abounds in buildings from that...
Chandernagar (35 km) is a former French settlement that still has many buildings from the colonial period of its...
The traditional lighting designers of Chandernagar will create light installations, which will depict key visuals of the Great Arc.
chandernagar.networklive.org   (268 words)

  
 History of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Their company was founded by Colbert in 1664 but it was so closely tied to the state that its fortunes rose and fell with the careers of ministers and turns of politics.
It was not until after 1720, with Dumas at Pondicherry and Dupleix at Chandernagar, that its fortunes revived rapidly.
The Danes had settlements at Tranquebar, but they were more important for the missionary activities carried on there than for commerce.
indiansaga.com /history/british_french.html   (375 words)

  
 ASC - North Andaman Earthquake, 1941   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
People outdoors are said to have had an "unusual experience".
Tremors were also experienced at Calcutta (now Kolkata), Chandernagar and Cuttack.
Shaking was felt for a duration of 4 minutes at Cuttack.
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 Indo European Hybrids   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
But the company painters had been atomised individuals, each of them were working out their own solutions for catering to the needs of their individual patrons.
Theaters, after 1795, for Bengali plays for the native population, started coming up in Calcutta, Chinsurah and Chandernagar, the place needed painted scenes and back-drops, painted wings and drop-scenes, these theatre props made of cloth, used to be painted with oil soluble colours.
The early Bengal oils given the names of Dutch Bengal and French Bengal paintings, as some of the earlier ones were found from the former dutch settlement of Chinsurah and the French settlement of Chandernagar, used to have episodes from the Ramayana, the Purans, the Mangal-Kavyas and Puranic Brahmanical Gods and Goddesses as subject matters.
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 Travel Agents in Pondicherry India, Pondicherry Travel Agents, Tour Operators in Pondicherry, Pondicherry Travel Agent, ...
The Indo French agreement of June 1948 was signed and the French gave freedom to the French Indian population to choose their political status by a referendum.
While Chandernagar merged with India on the basis of referendum, Pondicherry could not enjoy that facility because of different system and practice of elections.
On 23rd March 1954, Nettapakkam and Madukarai areas were liberated and a French India Liberation government was set up on 16.5.1954.
www.travel-agents-in-india.com /states/travel-agent-in-pondicherry.html   (1790 words)

  
 British East India Company - Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
It also was engaged in the Seven Years War with France fought in Europe, in the colonies in North America and in India.
The war which resulted in the defeat of the French forces, limited French imperial ambitions, and they were forced to maintain their trade posts in Pondicherry, Mahe and Chandernagar, without any military presence.
This allowed the Company to surge ahead in its interests in the Carnatic from its base at Madras and in Bengal from Calcutta.
www.book-spot.co.uk /index.php/British_East_India_Company   (1583 words)

  
 JESUIT  CONTRIBUTION TO BENGAL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Jesuit Bishop Francis Laynes of Mylapore, which he ruled from 1710, visited Balasore in June 1712 and was well received by the English Governor.
He then paid a brief visit to Calcutta and moved on to Bandel, the Christian centre (close to Chandernagar) where there were Europeans, Eurasians, and Indian converts, mostly from the lowest castes.
The Bishop began thereafter the formal visitation of the territory which is today Bangladesh, spending no less than nine months at Chittagong, before proceeding to Dhaka.
www.goethals.org /jcbengal.htm   (2976 words)

  
 Slogging toppers, bad showing, torn lists in Delhi govt schools   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
And if this Sarvodaya Vidyalaya was taking pride in announcing its results, another school situated barely 5 km away has a completely different story to tell.
At the Sarvodaya Boys Senior Secondary School at Chandernagar, 49 students had cleared the boards, there were 44 failures and 30 compartment cases.
Dhiraj, who could not clear his examinations, said: ``Our school was never strict.
www.indianexpress.com /ie/daily/19990603/ige03166.html   (476 words)

  
 Sri Aurobindo Ghosh and Bede Griffiths
On release from prison he once again threw himself into politics and founded the Nationalist Party in Bengal.
In January of 1910 he received word secretly that he was soon to be deported, so he retired from Calcutta to the neighboring French territory of Chandernagar.
From there he went to Pondicherry where he began to pursue the sadhana of yoga.
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 The Hindu : Other States / Uttaranchal News : Landslide claims six lives
In Dehra Dun, several localities in low-lying areas have been flooded with knee-deep rainwater.
Residents of Chandernagar complained that a good portion of their household goods had been damaged by the water which could have been checked if a proper drainage system had been made.
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www.hinduonnet.com /2004/07/29/stories/2004072907670500.htm   (171 words)

  
 Some Locations in Colonial India
Cawnpore was the scene of the infamous Cawnpore Massacre in 1857, when dozens of British women and children were slaughtered and their bodies thrown down a well.
Chandernagar was formerly a French colony and is situated about 30km north of the centre of Calcutta.
Map of area around Calcutta showing location of Chandernagar
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 WHKMLA : History of French India, 1815-1878
The concise descriptions of the history of French India / Pondicherry report nothing on the period between 1815 and 1878.
French India was a remote colony, consisting of 5 scattered, tiny possessions (Pondicherry, Karikal, Chandernagar, Mahe, Yanaon) which were, at best, of secondary political and economic importance, and which offered little prospect of development, as Britain took control of the hinterland.
The opening of the Suez Canal (constructed by Frenchman Ferdinand de Lesseps) in 1869 considerably improved communication with the motherland.
www.zum.de /whkmla/region/india/frindia18151878.html   (132 words)

  
 Indian Express: The work here never gets over   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In the latter case both the man as well as the bullock get paid separately by the MCD, they say.
Their trucks filled they have tea while little Hilal, Firoz and Maharaj, who have been picking at the heaps, leave with sacks of cans and plastics for their hutments in Chandernagar.
They say they will give the sacks to their parents who will then buy food with the money they get.
www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19981207/34151454p.html   (628 words)

  
 Holidays in Calcutta, Calcutta Holidays,Vacations Calcutta,Holiday in Calcutta,Tourist Places in Calcutta,Calcutta ...
Chinsura at a distance of 46 kilometres from Calcutta is home to a Dutch factory that was built in 1628.
from Calcutta is Chandernagar that was once a French settlement.
Quai Dupleix, Eglise Du Sacre, and image of Joan of Arc are the must visits here.
www.indianholiday.com /holidays-in-india/holidays-in-calcutta.html   (295 words)

  
 Chandannagar, Kolkata - India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Situated along the banks of River Ganga, 37 km.
North of Kolkata, Chandannagar, formerly known as Chandernagore or Chandernagar is a small city.
The ''City of Liberty " has always attracted the people from all over the world due to her indescribable beauty".
www.kolkata-india.com /chandannagar.html   (951 words)

  
 IOC projects in Bengal to be over by 2003
The final clearance of the hydrocracker unit was still awaited, he said.
The major projects of the marketing division included the setting up of new LPG bottling plants at Raninagar, Malda and Chandernagar.
Once these plants were commissioned, its LPG bottling capacity in the state would be up by 1,32,000 tonnes over the present 1,72,000 tonnes.
www.blonnet.com /2000/05/17/stories/141760l1.htm   (388 words)

  
 vortecpan
Saint Martin was partitioned in 1648 by the Dutch (who occupy the southern part of the island, Sint Maarten) and French (who occupy the northern part of the island, Saint-Martin).
French enclaves in India (Mahe, Karikal, Pondichery, Yanam, and Chandernagar).
The map also marks the loges in Mazulipatam and Balasore.
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 WHKMLA : History of France, Foreign Policy 1715-1774
They established factories along the coast of India (Yanaon, Mahe, Pondichery, Chandernagar).
JOSEPH-FRANCOIS DUPLEIX, Governor-General of the French East India Company (1741-1754), by diplomatic means allied the Indian princes of the Carnatic to France and was able to take MADRAS from the English East India Company in 1746.
PIERRE ET MIQUELON), SENEGAL, in India it was restricted to the factories of Mahe, Pondichery, Yanaon and Chandernagar.
www.zum.de /whkmla/region/france/france17151774for.html   (587 words)

  
 British East India Company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Robert Clive, the GovernorGeneral, led the Company to an astounding victory against Joseph François Dupleix, the commander of the forces in India, and recaptured Fort St George fromthe French.
By the Treaty of Paris (1763), theFrench were forced to maintain their trade posts in small enclaves in Pondicherry, Mahe, and Chandernagar without any militarypresence.
However, the Company continued to experience resistance from local rulers.
www.therfcc.org /british-east-india-company-16610.html   (2885 words)

  
 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - NCR stories
Four children were killed in a major fire that broke out this afternoon in a house in Chandernagar in East Delhi.
The police said the house, no E-24, in Chandernagar belonged to Prem Kumar who lived on the first floor.
He had given the ground floor on rent to Kishori Lal.
www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20030930/ncr1.htm   (6309 words)

  
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Bulbul Mitra, a science graduate from Chandernagar in Hooghly, was convicted 13 years ago for murder.
Mitra hopes to be released in March next year.
It will be difficult for me to face the public humiliation on my return.
www.telegraphindia.com /1011217/national.htm   (3137 words)

  
 railhistory
The weather Gods smiled on the EIR and blessed it with a bright future
August 1854, the company ran a regular service, morning an evening, between Howrah and Hugli with stops at Bali, Serampore and Chandernagar.
The train started at 8:30 A.M. from Howrah with three coaches for 1st Class passengers and two for 2nd.
railindia.tripod.com /history_er.html   (1640 words)

  
 INDIA :: Independent India - Developing to a Developed nation
UN monitored cease fire takes effect in Kashmir
Atomic Energy establishment set up in Bombay; Chandernagar incorporated with India
ONGC set up; TV transmission introduced in New Delhi; Indo-Portuguese dispute
www.kuttyjapan.com /india/india-independent.asp   (284 words)

  
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Spend time on the beaches at Bakkhali and Digha.
Check out terracotta temples at Vishnupur and French ruins at Chandernagar.
Enjoy the peace, calm and tranquility at Tagore's Shantiniketan - visit the campus of the Vishwabharti University or travel to Murshidabad, to glimpse a completely different lifestyle, that of rich and decadent nawabs.
www.journeymart.com /DExplorer/asiais/india/WestBengal?SubLink=DExplorer/AsiaIS/India/WestBengal/viSightseeing_Inc.htm   (176 words)

  
 Marathas and the English Company 1707-1818 by Sanderson Beck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Clive arrived with an army that took over Calcutta and Hughli in January 1757; a treaty restored the East India Company's trading rights and factories.
At war with France, the English attacked Chandernagar.
Siraj complained but could do little except ask the French to leave Bengal.
www.san.beck.org /2-10-Marathas1707-1818.html   (23789 words)

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