The end of the British Raj and the creation of the two states of India and Pakistan in August 1947 is a recognizable narrative within British Anglophone culture and colonial history. In contrast the persistence of the five French trading posts or comptoirs on the Indian subcontinent until 1954 remains largely ignored by both French and British historians of French colonialism and the popular culture of the Hexagone. In examining metropolitan Frenchlanguage representations of Indian decolonization this book demonstrates the importance of the British imperial loss in 1947 as a reference point within French cultural production. The critical investigation into the strategies of representation used problematizes existing Anglophone theoretical models by critics such as Said Bhabha and Spivak for the analysis of colonial discourse. It reveals that Frenchlanguage representations of Indian decolonization cannot be fully appreciated without engaging methodologically with Frances politically subordinate status in India. The book thus challenges the commonly accepted binary between colonizer and colonized proposing in its place a triangular model composed of the colonized India the subaltern colonizer France and the dominant colonizer Britain. Through a systematic critical evaluation of the range of texts journalistic intellectual political and literary produced in metropolitan France by authors such as Romain Rolland Jean Rous Hlne Cixous Catherine Clment and Marguerite Duras the book challenges the current postcolonial orthodoxy that the story of Indian decolonization is solely an Anglophone space.