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The Treaty of Pondicherry was signed in 1754 bringing an end to the
Second Carnatic War The Carnatic Wars were a series of military conflicts in the middle of the 18th century in India's coastal Carnatic region, a dependency of Hyderabad State, India. Three Carnatic Wars were fought between 1744 and 1763. The conflicts involved ...
. It was agreed and signed in the French settlement of
Puducherry Puducherry or Pondicherry may refer to: * Puducherry (union territory), a union territory of India ** Pondicherry, capital of the union territory of Puducherry ** Puducherry district, a district of the union territory of Puducherry ** Puducherry t ...
in
French India French India, formally the ( en, French Settlements in India), was a French colony comprising five geographically separated enclaves on the Indian Subcontinent that had initially been factories of the French East India Company. They were ''de ...
. The favoured British candidate
Mohamed Ali Khan Walajan Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah, or Muhammed Ali, Wallajah (7 July 1717 – 13 October 1795), was the Nawab of the Carnatic from 1749 until his death in 1795. He declared himself Nawab in 1749. This position was disputed between Wallajah and Ch ...
was recognized as the
Nawab of the Carnatic The Carnatic Sultanate was a kingdom in South India between about 1690 and 1855, and was under the legal purview of the Nizam of Hyderabad, until their demise. They initially had their capital at Arcot in the present-day Indian state of Tamil N ...
.Keay: ''The Honourable Company'', p. 282–95. Despite intending to be a lasting solution, a
Third Carnatic War The Carnatic Wars were a series of military conflicts in the middle of the 18th century in India's coastal Carnatic region, a dependency of Hyderabad State, India. Three Carnatic Wars were fought between 1744 and 1763. The conflicts involved n ...
broke out just two years later in 1756.


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Great Britain in the Seven Years' War Great Britain was one of the major participants in the Seven Years' War, which in fact lasted nine years, between 1754 and 1763. British involvement in the conflict began in 1754 in what became known as the French and Indian War. However th ...


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* Keay, John. ''The Honourable Company: A History of the English East India Company''. Harper Collins, 1993. {{DEFAULTSORT:Treaty Of Pondicherry Peace treaties of India 1754 treaties Peace treaties of the Kingdom of Great Britain Peace treaties of the Ancien Régime Treaties of the Nawab of the Carnatic History of Puducherry 1754 in India 18th century in French India 1754 in British law