Mahé, India in the context of "Mahé district"

French India, formally the Établissements français dans l'Inde (English: French Settlements in India), was a French colony comprising five geographically separated enclaves on the Indian subcontinent that had initially been factories of the French East India Company. They were de facto incorporated into the Republic of India in 1950 and 1954. The enclaves were Pondichéry, Karikal, Yanaon on the Coromandel Coast, Mahé on the Malabar Coast and Chandernagor in Bengal. The French also possessed several loges ('lodges', tiny subsidiary trading stations) inside other towns, but after 1816, the British denied all French claims to these, which were not reoccupied.

By 1950, the total area measured 510 km (200 sq mi), of which 293 km (113 sq mi) belonged to the territory of Pondichéry. In 1936, the population of the colony totalled 298,851 inhabitants, of which 63% (187,870) lived in the territory of Pondichéry.

The Malayali Diaspora refers to the Malayali people who live outside their homeland of the Indian state of Kerala and the Union Territories of Mahé, India and Lakshadweep. They are predominantly found in the Persian Gulf, North America, Europe, Australia, Caribbean, Africa and other regions around the world.

The Mahe River (/ˈmɑːheɪ/) natively Mayyazhipuzha (Malayalam: [mɐjːɐɻipːuɻɐ]) is a river in South India. It flows through the state of Kerala and the coastal exclave of Mahe in Puducherry.

The Mahe River originates in the slopes of the Western Ghats part of the Wayanad district. Initially, the river flows through the hilly eastern towns of the Kozhikode district like Vilangad, Vanimal, Jathiyeri and Nadapuram. Then, the river enters into the Malabar plains where it flows through several towns, including Parakkadavu, Kadavathur, Peringathur, Eramala, Kunnukara, Kariyad and Peringandoor. The river then flows through the northern boundary of the Union Territory of Mahe and empties into the Arabian Sea.