Puducherry Police Exam पुडुचेरी पुलिस परीक्षा

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The French were the last among the European powers that sought to establish their trade stations and their maritime might in India through the new sea-route discovered by the Portuguese navigator, Vasco da Gama. The French first came to Surat in 1666 after obtaining an imperial firman from the Moghul Emperor Aurangazeb. And wandering from the West to the East they finally established themselves in a village on the Coromandel Coast in 1674, with permission of Sher Khan Lodi a governor of the Bijapur Sultan. 

With this foothold on the East Coast, which became their main stay over the next 280 years, the French dreams of an Indian Empire began and ended - here in Pondicherry. During this period, but for brief spells when the area slipped in and out of their hands, the minuscule scattered territories which today comprise the centrally administered Union Territory of Pondicherry - to which granting of full Statehood has been announced recently in Parliament, - remained under French administration for well nigh 230 years. Till the time of their de facto transfer to the Indian Union on November 1st 1954 , and the de jure transfer on August 16 the 1963 subsequent to which the Indian laws were made applicable.

The French however did not bring the administration system of their country immediately on arrival. For carrying out the day to day administration, they relied on the existing native infrastructure on which they established and super imposed in 1702 a supreme body called "CONSEIL SUPERIEUR" with both administrative and judicial powers. This Council was presided over by the Governor who was also the Commandant of the Town and the Fort. Occupation and re-occupation of various settlements in India marked the period up to 1815 after which there was continuous French presence.

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