who was the head of French
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The French established ‘The French East India Company’ in the year 1664 C.E. They established factories in Surat, Machhalipatnam and Puducherry (Pondicherry). The head of the French company was Joseph Francois Dupleix, who had the desire to expand the European rule in India.
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Joseph Francois Dupleix was the head of French company.
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Joseph-François Dupleix, colonial administrator and governor-general of the French colonies in India (born 1697, Landrecies, France—died Nov. 10, 1763, Paris), came dangerously close to realising his aim of creating a French empire in India.
In the year 1715, Dupleix was dispatched on a journey to India and America by his father, François, a director of the French East India Company. Due to the influence of his father, he was appointed to the superior council of Pondicherry (now Puducherry), the French Indian Empire's capital, in 1720. In Bengal's Chandernagore, he was appointed superintendent of the French factory (trading station), and eleven years later he was named governor-general of all French institutions in India.
The French suggested neutrality in India when hostilities broke out between France and Britain in the War of the Austrian Succession in 1744, but the British rejected this. With the aid of a French navy, Dupleix managed to occupy Madras (now Chennai) in 1746 but was unable to take the nearby British fort of St. David. He twice routed forces sent to relieve Britain's ally, the Carnatic nawab Anwr al-Din (modern Karnataka state).
The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle put an end to the war in Europe in 1748 and gave the British back control of Madras, but Dupleix began hatching new plans for French expansion in India.
He formed local alliances with them with the intention of destabilising the British East India Company after recognising the military vulnerability of the numerous rival rulers in south India. When the British backed a competing candidate, he backed Chanda Sahib's claim to the nawabship of the Carnatic, and a mostly private war (1751) between the two parties resulted. All French forces were beaten, with the exception of those in the Deccan, mostly due to the actions of Dupleix's main foe, the talented young British soldier Robert Clive. French funds were depleted in the fight as Dupleix's great plans kept failing for two more years.
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