Joseph François Dupleix was the first Governor of the French colony of Pondicherry on 15 January 1742. Pondicherry was colonised by the French for 3 centuries. India got its Independence on the 15th of August 1947. It took Pondicherry seven years to unite with the Independence of India. In 1787 and 1791, farmers of Karaikal were against the heavy land tax imposed by the French. So in 1873 an advocate, Ponnuthammbi Pillai moved the Paris court and won the case but was fined by a French magistrate in Pondicherry for walking into the the court with footwear.
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