Question

write about merger of french and portuguese​

Answer 1

Answer:

An agreement between France and India in 1948 agreed to an election in France's remaining Indian possessions to choose

Answer 2

Since the partition of Bengal, Chandernagore was in the thick of the fight against the British

The French were late by six decades in India. As with other European colonists — British and the Dutch, the French too started their colonisation through commercial activities. The first French factory in India was established at Surat in 1668 and later one at Machillipatnam. But they were driven out by the Dutch and the British by 1720.

The French settlement in India began in 1673 with the purchase of land at Chandernagore from the Mughal Governor of Bengal. The next year they acquired Pondicherry from the Sultan of Bijapur. Both became the centres of maritime commercial activities of the French in India.