Mahé (India)

See also: Mahé

Mahé , contrary to the other districts (Kârikâl, Yanaon, Pondichéry) of the territory of Pondichéry, old French Establishments of India, is located on the Malabar Coast. Mahé is roughly to 630 km in the west of Pondichéry by the road. Its population rises with 36.823 inhabitants (census 2001). One speaks there the Télougou, the Tamoul and the Malayalam.

Mahé is bordered in south-west by the Mer of Oman, in north by the Ponniyar river (Moolakadavu) and by hills limestones of average altitude. The district is wedged in the Kerala. Its surface is of 9 km ².

Geography

The district of Mahé consists of 3 entities:
  • the town of Mahé itself,
  • small the Enclave of Kallayi,
  • Naluthura.

The town of Mahé extends to the south from the mouth from the river Mahé, Naluthura between the Ponniyar river, with north, and the road Kozhikode - Tellicherry in the south. One finds between the two the enclave of Kallayi.

The area is between 11° 42 ' and 11°43' of northern latitude and between 75° 31 ' and 75° 33 ' of longitude is.

History

The original name of the area is Mayyali what means “the mouth of the black river”.

The history of Mahé starts when André Mollandin, the representative of the French Compagnie of the Eastern Indies, puts foot at it at ground in 1721. The April 2nd 1721, Mollandin and the râja Vazhunnavar de Badagara (transcribed Bayanor of Bargaret , in the French documents) concludes an agreement making it possible to the French to establish a counter, makes a warehouse of it, with the mouth of the river. In 1724, a fort is built. In 1725, the Britanniques persuade Vazhunnavar to expel the French out of Mayyali. The relationship between this last and the French tighten themselves and a conflict bursts. The French fold up themselves on Calicut, but, in December, take again the counter.

In 1741, with the head of a squadron armed with makeshift solutions, the captain Bertrand-François Mahé of Bourdonnais releases the counter occupied by the Marathes. Following this action, its name is given to the city.

After the Indian independence of 1947, like the other counters, Mahé remains under French jurisdiction until the June 13rd 1954 before joining the Indian Union finally.

See Too

Literatures

  • Mukundan (Author), On banks of the river Mahé , novel, translated from English (India) by Sophie Country house-Foltz, Actes Sud, Paris, 2002,

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