Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Pondicherry is a union territory in the south of India. Formerly a French colony, it came under the rule of the Indian Government in 1954 and was organized as a union territory in 1963. It consists of four small unconnected parts: Pondicherry, Karaikal, and Yanam on the Bay of Bengal and Mahe on the Arabian Sea. On January 16, 1761, the British captured Pondicherry from the French. See also: French East India Company This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.