Yanam District Court

ABOUT DISTRICT COURT

The French occupied Yanam in 1723. It ranks third in the antiquity of the Five former French Settlements

• Chandernagor – Year 1673
• Pondichery – Year 1674
• Yanam – Year 1723
• Mahe – Year 1725
• Karaikal – Year 1739

The tiny town’s history therefore dates back to 1723 when the Compagnie des indes of France established here a trading post of theirs. It was vacated after four years because their commercial operations did not produce the desired results. It was seized again in 1731 during the time of Dupleix. A PARWANA from Haji Hassan Khan authorised the French Representative Fouquet, then Chief of the Company at Machilipatnam (325 kms. away from Yanam) to set up a ‘loge’ at Yanam in the year 1731.
Musafar Jung, the Nizam of Hyderabad in 1750, confirmed the sovereignty of the French over the territory. The place was formally ceded to them only two years later. Like all other settlements, Yanam too fell thrice into the hands of the British. After the Napoleanic War, Yanam along with the factory at Machilipatnam was finally returned to the French early in 1817

A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF YANAM

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