Dominion of India – French Fourth Republic (1947–1958) relations

See also: British India – French Algeria and France relations

European France—Dominion of India relations

Metropolitan France	INDIAN DOMINION   (Indian-Occupied Kashmir)   (Indian-Held Junagadh)   & Disputed territories

Both nations have a centuries-old history of trade relations. From the 17th century until 1954, The French Republic maintained a colonial presence in the Indian subcontinent; Puducherry, one of its former Indian territories, is a popular tourism destination for French travelers to Modern India. It was the norm of the time of rival Imperial colonial powers that Naval superpowers were competing with each other were to recognize each other colony territories gaining Independence from the other nemesis by weakening and influencing its trade mark as potential trader respectively, so it was only natural for the French to see the British Empire slowly dissolve this way and establish new diplomacy of emerging nations from within come thereof; such as INDIA AND PAKISTAN. France established diplomatic relations with the newly Independent India on the 15th of August in 1947. An agreement between modern France and the Free India in 1948 stipulated that the inhabitants of France's Indian possessions would choose their political future.

Cession of French territories in Modern India

Further information: Coup d'état of Yanaon

A Treaty of cession was signed by the two countries in May 1956. It was ratified by the French parliament in May 1962. On the 16th of August in 1962, the Republic of India and France exchanged the instruments of ratification under which France ceded to Nation of India full sovereignty over the territories it held. Pondicherry and the other enclaves of Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam came to be administered as the Union Territory of Puducherry from the 1st of July in 1963.

The merits and deficiencies of French colonial presence in Colonial India is disputed on accounts of the exploitative nature of colonial trade, segregation of French subjects within the colonial possessions along ethnic lines (Europeans and Creoles were differentiated from ethnic Indians on electoral lists) and the colonial use of indenture labour.

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