Place · French colonial enclave · India
Yanam
The former French East India Company settlement at Yanam on the Godavari delta in Andhra Pradesh, 850 kilometres from Puducherry — one of the four enclaves of French India under French rule from 1731 to 1954. Yanam was ceded to the French by the Nizam of Hyderabad in 1731 and remained a small French territory geographically surrounded by British Madras Presidency and the Nizam's Golconda-Kakinada frontier. The town preserves the French-era St Anne's Church (1864), the French consulate building, and the Vijnanewarudu street names in French. The 1954 Treaty of Cession transferred Yanam to the Indian Union on 13 June 1954 (ratified 1962). Modern Yanam is a 20-square-kilometre district of the Puducherry Union Territory, famed for its French cultural festival each August.
- Function
- Religious institution & practice
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 16.730, 82.220
Connections (1)
- Trade routeMachilipatnam / Masulipatnam / Bandar
Yanam and Masulipatnam are the two French positions on the northern Coromandel, forty leagues apart, both there for painted cotton. When the Company took Masulipatnam in 1759 it left Yanam as a loge with no hinterland — a customs house, a flagstaff and a handful of staff, which is what most of French India actually looked like after 1763.
On these journeys
Sources
Wikipedia, “Yanam”. Jean Deloche, Le vieux Pondichéry; the Institut Français de Pondichéry publications; French India treaty texts.
Open Yanam in the repository →