HISTORY
MODERN INDIA
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La Bourdonnais
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Captain Paradise
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Dupleix
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Count-de-Lally
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Detailed explanation-1: -Note: General Joseph François Dupleix was the French Governor-General of Pondicherry during the principal Carnatic War .
Detailed explanation-2: -Dupleix, the French governor who had successfully led the French forces in the First Carnatic War, sought to increase his power and French political influence in southern India by interfering in local dynastic disputes to defeat the English.
Detailed explanation-3: -Joseph-François Dupleix, (born 1697, Landrecies, France-died Nov. 10, 1763, Paris), colonial administrator and governor-general of the French territories in India, who nearly realized his dream of establishing a French empire in India.
Detailed explanation-4: -The war set the stage for the rapid growth of French hegemony in southern India under the command of French Governor-General Joseph François Dupleix in the Second Carnatic War.