Chandernagore

a port in E India, in S West Bengal on the Hooghly River: a former French settlement (1686--1950). Pop.: 162 166 (2001)

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Chandernagore

a city and port in northeastern India, in the state of West Bengal, near the city of Calcutta, on the Hooghly River (a branch of the Ganges) in the Ganges delta. Population, 76,000 (1971). Chandernagore has a railroad station; its port is accessible to oceangoing vessels. The city has a jute factory; cotton fabrics are also produced. From 1673 until 1950, Chandernagore was a French possession.

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While his discussion of competing French and English interests in Chandernagore and other places, and the eventual decline of French presence in India is very readable, the chapter ignores the issue of mixed race marriages altogether, save a few passing references.

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The same author tells of later 'English theatres of a rather ephemeral nature' in the wider neighbourhood, at Chandernagore (1808), Kidderpore (1815) and Dum Dum (1817, a cantonment theatre), and others named as the Athenaeum (1812), the fashionable Private Subscription Theatre (1813) and the Sans Souci (1839, rebuilt 1841).

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He helped build up Chandernagore, France's colony adjacent to Calcutta in Bengal, and he cultivated good relations with British traders.

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Principal battles: Siege of Arcot (1751); Chandernagore, Plassey (1757); Siege of Pondicherry (1760-1761).

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Contacts between France and India date far back in time; they are anterior to the French East India Company and to its trading posts, of which Pondicherry and Chandernagore remain the most famous.

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