​The French

In 1664, Colbert, a minister of Louis XIV, laid the foundations of French East India Company, it was granted 50-year monopoly on French trade in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

  • The first French factory was established at Surat by Francois Caron in 1668.
  • They occupied Mahe in the Malabar, Yanam in Coromandal (both in 1725) and Karaikal in Tamil Nadu (1739).
  • Joseph Dupleix was the governor-general of French possession in India from 1742 to 1754.

Anglo-French Struggle in South India

  • The arrival of Dupleix as a French governor in India in ....
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