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20 unusual facts about Pondicherry


Chintz

In 1734, French naval officer, M. de Beaulieu, who was stationed at Pondicherry, India, sent home letters along with actual samples of chintz fabric during each stage of the process to a chemist friend detailing the dyeing process of cotton chintz.

Clan Rollo

The seventh Lord Rollo fought with distinction at the siege of Pondicherry in India where he commanded a force of marines.

George Pocock

Again Pocock was unable to prevent his opponent from reaching Pondicherry, and a well-contested battle between them on 10 September 1759 proved again indecisive.

The first battle, on 29 April 1758, failed to prevent the Frenchmen from reaching Pondicherry.

War being now in progress between France and England the French sent a naval force from their islands in the Indian Ocean into the Bay of Bengal to the assistance of Pondicherry.

Guillaume Le Gentil

The French expedition turned out to be particularly unlucky, and perhaps the most unfortunate was Guillaume le Gentil, who set out for Pondicherry, a French possession in India.

Harry Powlett, 6th Duke of Bolton

He was employed by Boscawen at the Siege of Pondicherry to take soundings off Pondicherry, in order to arrange the dispositions of the naval blockade of the town.

HMS Protector

Protector, a 44 gun fifth rate listed in 1749 which served in India, and was wrecked on 1 January 1776 by a cyclone near Pondicherry.

Indira Gandhi Polytechnic College, Mahe

IGPTC was founded in the year 2000 by the government of Pondicherry in collaboration with Directorate of Technical Education, Chennai.

Louis Alexis Étienne Bonvin

A declaration of war, colonial governor, it is based in Pondicherry and gathered around him the people of the counters.

Ocypode brevicornis

However, his type specimens consisted only of two juvenile individuals from Pondicherry, India.

Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras

After an eventful voyage, he reached Pondicherry and contributed to the defence of that city during the Second Anglo-Mysore War, a siege which ended in its surrender to Great Britain on 18 October 1778.

Richard De Smet

He visited the Ramakrishna missions in various parts of the country, and also the Aurobindo Ashram at Pondicherry.

Sir John Moore, 1st Baronet

Here they captured a two French ships, one a rich merchant from Manila, and the other the large privateer Favorette, out of Pondicherry.

St. Peter's Pontifical Seminary

St. Peter’s Seminary started functioning in Bangalore from 1934 was a development of the former “Grand Seminaire” of Pondicherry founded in 1778.

Suzlon Energy

With headquarters in Pune, it operates several manufacturing facilities in India, at places such as Coimbatore, Padubidri, Vadodara, Daman, Dhule, Chakan, Gandhidham and Pondicherry.

Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally

After a failed attempt to capture Madras he lost the Battle of Wandiwash to British forces under Eyre Coote and then was forced to surrender the remaining French post at Pondicherry.

He reached Pondicherry in April 1758, and at the outset met with some trifling military success.

Uttarpara

In 1909, Aurobindo Ghosh gave his last political speech before leaving for Pondicherry to embrace monkhood.

Vaa Deal

Thus the team relocated and began filming again in Pondicherry.


76th Punjabis

The regiment's first action was in 1778, when it took part in the capture of the French enclave of Pondicherry.

Arikamedu

It is located at a distance 7 km from its capital Pondicherry, in the Indian territory of Puducherry, where Mortimer Wheeler conducted his best-known excavation in the 1940s.

Catherine Grand

Catherine Noele Worlée was born in the Danish possession of Tranquebar, Tamil Nadu, India, to a French colonial official stationed at nearby Pondicherry.

Charles Godeheu

Charles Robert Godeheu de Zaimont was Acting Governor General of Pondicherry who is the Commissioner of French army during Dupleix's reign.

Chennai Mass Rapid Transit System

In 2008, a proposal was initiated to construct a new railway line from Perungudi MRTS station in Chennai to Pondicherry via Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR) and East Coast Road (ECR).

The line emanating from Perungudi MRTS station is envisaged to be 179 km long and is expected to traverse via Sholinganallur, SIPCOT, Kovalam, Tiruporur, Mamallapuram, Kalpakkam, Koovathur, Cheyyur, Marakkanam, Kunimedu, Kuiyilappalayam, Jipmer in Pondicherry, Pondicherry, Bahour, Varakalpattu, and Tirupadipuliyur to reach Cuddalore Port Jn.

Christianity in Puducherry

With a land area of 11,348 square kilometers, the Archdiocese of Pondicherry–Cuddalore extends over the Pondicherry and Karaikal civil districts of the Puducherry Union Territory and the civil districts of Cuddalore and Vilpuram of Tamil Nadu State.

Coup d'état of Yanaon

Just three days before the coup, the last colonial chief administrator of Yanam, George Sala, was recalled by André Ménard, the then Governor General of Pondicherry.

De Bussy

Marquis de Bussy-Castelnau (1718–1785), the Governor General of the French colony of Pondicherry from 1783 to 1785

Dilipkumar Roy

After a second visit to Europe, in 1928 Roy settled at the Ashram of Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry.

Jeanne Dupleix

In 17 April 1741, she at the age of 33 married Dupleix who was President of Superior Council of Pondicherry and General Commandent of French Possessions in India.

Kireet Joshi

He was selected for I.A.S. in 1955 but in 1956 he resigned in order to devote himself at Pondicherry to the study and practice of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.

Lanrezac

Victor Louis Marie Lanrezac, Governor General of Pondicherry (1902 – 1904)

Lettres de l'Inde

It was actually in Paris that Mirbeau wrote the first seven letters, centering on Ceylon and Pondicherry, and then in the Orne, near L'Aigle, where, while contemplating the rhododendrons of Normandy, he pictured in the last four letters the twelve-meter high rhododendrons of the Himalayas, glimpsed in an apocryphal trek across Sikkim.

Marakkar

Basically there, "Thambisa" refers the name of a traditional South Indian tamil speaking Marakkayar family by name Haji Muna.Thambisa Maricar family from Karaikal of Pondicherry (now 'Puducherry') Union, a town of French India earlier.

Municipal administration in French India

Kizhur, a tiny hamlet was finally chosen in order to avoid the disturbances, which the presence of messrs. Goubert and Mouthoupoulle might have provoked if the congress had been held at Pondicherry.

Peravai

Dravida Peravai (Dravidian Front), political party in Pondicherry, India

Rajiv Gandhi College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences

Pondicherry Veterinary College was rechristened as the Rajiv Gandhi College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, named after Rajiv Gandhi, in a state function presided over by Ms. Sonia Gandhi.

Saiva Vellalar

Vallal Sadaiyappa Mudaliar, a rich 12th-century Vellala chief who had residences at Puduvai (Pondicherry) and Thiruvenainallur.

Santhome

French Governor-General Joseph François Dupleix sent a relief force from Pondicherry that met Khan's army at the Adyar River.

Sir Thomas Rumbold, 1st Baronet

During his governorship, British troops occupied Guntur (then French), which shortly afterwards was annexed to Madras, and also captured Pondichéry and Mahé; reporting the capture of Pondicherry to Lord North in October 1778 he declared that he had "happiness to succeed in fulfilling the wishes of his Majesty's ministers", and asked for a suitable reward.

Skybus Metro

Cities such as Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, Kanpur, Lucknow, Mumbai, Pondicherry, Pune, Ranchi, Shimla, Thane etc. are considering Sky Bus although the system has not been adopted anywhere.

Stringer Lawrence

He successfully foiled an attempted French surprise at Cuddalore, but subsequently was captured by a French cavalry patrol at Ariancopang (Ariankuppam) while leading forces advancing on Pondicherry (which was then besieged by Admiral Edward Boscawen), and kept prisoner till the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle.

Tareen

J. A. K. Tareen Vice-chancellor of B. S. Abdur Rahman University,former Vice-chancellor of Pondicherry University.

Vellore A. R. Srinivasan

Vellore A. R. Srinivasan is a classical Carnatic musician as well as an Associate Professor of Biochemistry at Mahatma Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute at Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth University in Pondicherry, India.