SidneySorensen: New the entry basic info

2026-04-11T00:02:07Z

New the entry basic info

New page

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}}
{{Use Indian English|date=September 2024}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Maurice Paquirissamypoullé
| image = File:Maurice Paquirissamypoullé.jpg
| caption =
| office = [[List of senators of French India|Senator for French India]]
| term_start = 26 January 1947
| term_end = 19 June 1955
| predecessor = [[Eugène Le Moignic]]
| successor = (seat suppressed)
| birth_name = Ajagasoundirame
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1906|08|09|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Karaikal]], French India
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1956|01|13|1906|08|09|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Karaikal]], Puducherry, India
| blank1 = Also called
| data1 = Maurice Paquirissamy-Poullé
| occupation =
| known_for =
}}
'''Maurice Paquirissamypoullé''', or '''Paquirissamy-Poullé''', (9 August 1906 – 13 January 1956) was a rice trader and politician from the colony of [[Karaikal]] in [[French India]].
He represented the colony in the Council of the Republic from 1947 until 1955, when his seat was dissolved following the union with India.
He did what he could to ensure a [[peaceful transition of power]].

==Early years==

Maurice Paquirissamypoullé was born on 9 August 1906 in [[Karaikal]], French India.
He studied at the Collège Colonial in [[Puducherry (city)|Pondicherry]].
He became a rice trader.{{sfn|collectif|2012}}
Paquirissamypoullé did not speak French well, and flirted with communism before entering mainstream politics as a socialist.{{sfn|Gaymard|2009}} He was married to Nagammal. He was born Hindu Vellala and became ''renonçant'' (i.e., rejecting the Hindu traditions) on 10 December 1924.<ref>Journal officiel des établissements français dans l'Inde, 31 janvier 1925, p.75.</ref>

==Local politics==

After [[World War II]] (1939–45) Paquirissamypoullé was elected a member of the Representative Assembly of French India on 15 December 1946.
He became vice-president of the assembly on 25 January 1947.{{sfn|collectif|2012}}
The French administration was often lethargic and bureaucratic, despite attempts by Paquirissamypoullé in the Assembly to goad it into action.{{sfn|Mulvany|2011|p=126}}
On 20 December 1948 the Assembly voted for a motion that approved the resolution of the [[Indian National Congress]] in [[Jaipur]] that required annexation of all foreign possessions in India, and called for the opening of negotiations between Paris and New Delhi.
Paquirissamypoullé approved this resolution.{{sfn|Gaymard|2009}}
On 23 October 1948 Paquirissamypoullé was elected municipal councilor of Karikal.
He was appointed mayor of Karaikal on 27 October 1948.
He was reelected municipal councilor on 3 May 1953, holding office until his death.{{sfn|collectif|2012}}

==Senator==

On 26 January 1947 Paquirissamypoullé was elected to the [[Council of the Republic (France)|Council of the Republic]] (the equivalent to the Senate in the [[French Fourth Republic]]) to represent the French Establishments in India (''Établissements français dans l'Inde'').
He sat with the [[Popular Republican Movement]] (MRP, Mouvement Républicain Populaire) group.{{sfn|collectif|2012}}
He was reelected on 19 December 1948.{{sfn|PAQUIRISSAMYPOULLE Maurice – Sénat}}
In 1949 he participated in debating the draft law for organizing a referendum in [[Chandannagar]], the first of the French Establishments to become part of the Indian Union (in 1951).
In 1953 he asked for government assistance for the victims of a cyclone that had devastated Karikal.
He was a member of the Committee on Economic Affairs, Customs and Trade Conventions in 1952, and of the Beverage Committee from 1952 to 1954.{{sfn|collectif|2012}}

In January 1954 Paquirissamypoullé returned from Paris, where he had met with [[Georges Bidault]], Minister of Foreign Affairs, and [[Louis Jacquinot]], Minister of Overseas France.
They had told him that a merger of the French Establishments with India was inevitable, and France wanted the transfer to take place under the most favorable terms and conditions possible.{{sfn|Stech|2011|p=108}}
The Indian government made repeated acts of aggression and intimidation that year.{{sfn|Stech|2011|p=116}}
[[Yanaon]] was lost to India on 13 June 1954, and [[Mahé, Puducherry|Mahé]] was evacuated by the freighter Granville on 16 July 1954.{{sfn|Pitoëff |1991|p=126}}
Paquirissamypoullé, until then loyal to France, bowed to the inevitable and came out in favour of the return to India.{{sfn|Pitoëff |1991|p=126}}
The troops of [[Dadala Raphael Ramanayya]] attacked the commune of [[Bahour]] to the north of Pondicherry on 22 July 1954.
Paquirissamypoullé managed to maintain calm in Karikal, whose evacuation by the French would have signalled general evacuation of the colonies.{{sfn|Stech|2011|p=116}}

[[Pierre Mendès France]] became head of the French government on 17 June 1954 on a program of peace in [[Indochina]].
On 20 July 1954 he asked [[Robert Buron]], Minister of Overseas France, to settle the French Indian problem.{{sfn|Pitoëff |1991|p=126}}
A Franco-Indian accord was signed in New Delhi on 11 October 1954.
The formal transfer of power took place on 31 October 1954.{{sfn|Stech|2011|p=117}}
The last four French Establishments in India, Karaikal, Mahé, Pondicherry and Yanaon, became part of the Indian Union.{{sfn|collectif|2012}}
Their seat in the Council of the Republic was suppressed by decree of 5 May 1955.{{sfn|PAQUIRISSAMYPOULLE Maurice – Sénat}}
Maurice Paquirissamypoullé's term of office ended on 4 July 1955.
He died on 13 January 1956 in Karaikal, Puducherry, India.{{sfn|collectif|2012}}

==Positions held==
{{S-start}}
{{Succession box | before= Position created | title=[[Puducherry Representative Assembly|Membre de l'assemblée réprésentative de Karikal]] | after=[[P. Shanmugam]]|years=1946 – 13 January 1956}}
{{S-end}}

==See also==
* [[Pondicherry Representative Assembly]]
* [[1955 Pondicherry Representative Assembly election]]

==Notes==
{{notelist}}{{reflist|30em}}

==Sources==
{{refbegin}}
*{{citation |language=fr |chapter=PAQUIRISSAMY-POULLÉ (Maurice) |title=Dictionnaire des parlementaires français de 1940 à 1958 |volume=6 (P-Z)
|author=collectif |publisher=La Documentation française |location=Paris |year=2012 |isbn=978-2110079930
|chapter-url=https://www.senat.fr/senateur-4eme-republique/paquirissamypoulle_maurice0342r4.html#1940-1958 |accessdate=2018-04-07}}
*{{citation |title=Les derniers feux de l'Inde française |date=1 January 2009 |journal=Le Rêve Indien de la France |language=fr
|last=Gaymard |first=Hervé |url=http://cidif2.go1.cc/index.php/essais/285-32-185-les-derniers-feux-de-linde-francaise |accessdate=2018-04-07}}
*{{citation |date=12 August 2011 |title=Flood of Memories:Narratives of Flood and Loss in Tamil South India
|last=Mulvany |first=Aaron Patrick |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |citeseerx=10.1.1.222.8209
}}
*{{citation |language=fr |ref={{harvid|PAQUIRISSAMYPOULLE Maurice – Sénat}}
|title=PAQUIRISSAMYPOULLE Maurice |publisher=Sénat de France
|url=https://www.senat.fr/senateur-4eme-republique/paquirissamypoulle_maurice0342r4.html#1940-1958 |accessdate=2018-04-07}}
*{{citation |language=fr
|last=Pitoëff |first=Patrick |title=L'Inde française en sursis. 1947-1954 |journal=Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer |volume=78 |issue=290 |pages=105–131 |year=1991
|doi=10.3406/outre.1991.2875 |url=https://www.persee.fr/docAsPDF/outre_0300-9513_1991_num_78_290_2875.pdf |accessdate=2018-04-07}}
*{{citation |language=fr |publisher=Université de Montréal |type=Mémoire de maîtrise |date=15 September 2011
|last=Stech |first=Zorian |title=Les possessions françaises en Inde dès les années 1920 jusqu'à l'indépendance : histoire d'un revirement politique
|url=https://papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1866/6047/Zorian_Stech_2011_memoire.pdf |accessdate=2018-04-08}}
{{refend}}
{{authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Paquirissamy-Poulle, Maurice}}
[[Category:1906 births]]
[[Category:1956 deaths]]
[[Category:Senators of French India]]

Maurice Paquirissamypoullé - Revision history

SidneySorensen: New the entry basic info