Which town?

To perfect the complexity of the local situation, this region had been colonized on the side of Pondicherry by the French and by the English on the side of the State of Madras, then renamed Tamil Nadu, and the administrative border between the two followed a trail so random and capricious that the lands of Her town were actually situated on both sides and different courses must be followed according to each – a situation that persists even today.

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On the 21 st of February, 1971, a first symbolic stone was laid in the ground a short distance from the exact spot where the Matrimandir would be built.

A few days later, the land could be bought.

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