History of the French in India
From the Founding of Pondichery in 1674 to the Capture of that Place in 1761

This history of the French Indian empire from 1674 to 1761 looks especially at the central individuals of the period.

George Bruce Malleson (Author)

9781108024020, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 16 December 2010

610 pages, 3 maps
21.6 x 14 x 3.4 cm, 0.77 kg

This work of 1868 is a revised and expanded version of a series of articles contributed by G. B. Malleson (1825–1898) to the Calcutta Review. The author served in India for thirty years from 1847, retiring finally with the honorary rank of major-general. Drawing on his wealth of first-hand experience of Anglo-Indian military history, he wrote prolifically and with an accessible, vigorous style. This work on the history of the French in India from 1674 to 1761 reassesses the career and contribution of Joseph François Dupleix and other major figures in this period of the Franco-Indian empire. He sees the decline in French power as the result of a few extremely able persons being let down by their mother-country's lack of support. In this he contrasts the French with the English in terms of their Indian colonial history.

1. The early French in India
2. The Perpetual Company of the Indies
3. The rise of the French power in India
4. La Bourdonnais and Dupleix
5. The first struggle in the Carnatic
6. French India at its zenith
7. The struggles of Dupleix with adversity
8. Bussy to 1754
9. The fall of Dupleix
10. Godeheu and De Leyrit
11. Chandernagore and the Dekkan
12. The last struggle for empire
Index.

Subject Areas: Asian history [HBJF]