Correct Answer - Option 2 : French
The correct answer is French.
- Chandannagar was established as a French colony in 1673.
- Obtaining permission from Ibrahim Khan, the then Nawab of Bengal, to establish a trading post on the right bank of the river Hooghly.
- In 1730 Joseph Francois Dupleix was appointed governor of the city.
- In 1756 war broke out between France and Great Britain, and the British Navy captured Chandannagar on 23 March 1757.
- Chandernagore merged with West Bengal on 2nd October 1954.
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