ILLUSTRATIONS

1. The Coromandel coast of India in the eighteenth century

2. Map of Pondichéry, 1704

3. Map of Pondichéry, 1716

4. Ananda Ranga Pillai’s mansion in Puducherry

5. A statue of Ananda Ranga Pillai in the mansion he built and the broker’s descendant

6. Rue Nainiappa, Puducherry