City-information
for Pondicherry
Pondicherry is 160 km south of Madras. It is said that Agastya Muni had his Ashram here. The French ruled it from 1816 to 1954.
Pondicherry is famous as the location of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, founded in 1920 by Sri Aurobindo. The main building of the Ashram is on Rue de la Marine. After Aurobindo left his body, one of his disciples a French woman called The Mother, became in charge of the Ashram, until her death in 1973 at the age of 97.
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