Centre For The Study Of Modern And Contemporary History

In this talk, Akhila Yechury (St Andrews) tells the story of the French settlements in India in the 19th and 20th centuries. She explains how their unusual legal and historical status made them into sites of contested sovereignty and overlapping colonial systems. The talk is followed by a comment from Harshan Kumarasingham (Edinburgh). This is a recording of an event hosted by the CSMCH in February 2019.