The French in their earlier records does mention their interest in establishing trade in the Northern Circars, which lie in the coastal regions of the Hyderabad sultanate.

[1]: 343  As per the 1783 report by French, "one judges the fineness of this cloth by the number of Conjons...These guineas of Yanaon were made of 'roui' Cotton which has very long threads" (sic).

In these circars, the English had colonies in Draksharama (1633), Veeravasaram (1634),[3]: 272  Narsapuram/Madapollam (1679),[3]: 273  Injaram (1708), Coringa (1759), Neelapalli (1751),[3]: 275 Bendamurlanka (1751)[3]: 275  and the Dutch made their presence in Palakollu (1613), Jagannathapuram (1734).

It was assumed that Yanaon did not exist as a Human settlement before 1706[6] as that area was densely forested and got ravaged by a severe cyclone in 1706 as narrated by an eye-witness Gollapoondi Nagichitty (Gollapudi Nagishetty).

[15][6] However, there is an old Vishnu temple located in the rue Vichenou of Yanaon and popular belief is that it was built many centuries ago (i.e. well before French presence).

As per the letter dated 24 January 1723 by M. Courton to the Superior Council of French India at Pondichéry, it was mentioned that he purchased some land by the Godavari River, near the (Paragana of) Ingiron-Yanaon to establish a magasin (i.e. trading post).

The establishment of Yanam roughly coincided with the cession of Deccan Subah from Mughal Empire and forming the Hyderabad sultanate right after the 1724 Battle of Shakar Kheda.

Under the pretext of the tyranny of local nawabs and governors, the Superior council in Pondicherry forced then French agents at Yanaon, M. Fouquet and M. Guillard to wind up the affairs and abandon it.

[19]: 121  The French records also credit M. Guillard for the establishment of a loge at Yanaon, which was within the paragana of Venjaram, in the Circar of Rajamahendri for the purpose of trading teakwood and towels (handkerchiefs).

[4]: 37 During June (or July) 1934, a paravana has been issued by the Nawab Dost Ali Khan Bahadur of Carnatic to M. Guillard for making the Pagodas of Pondichéry as the legal tender in Yanaon.

[30]: 274 Since the Nizam was only a subedar of Deccan, Muzzafar Jung technically does not hold any right to give away territories to the French without the permission or consent of his liege lord, the Padishah of Hindustan (i.e. Mughal Emperor).

But the Mughal Padishah Ahmad Shah Bahadur, unlike his father, was only a figurehead and his imperial firmans were respected by subordinates (such as subedars, faujdars, etc) only when it suited their purposes.

[29][6] An imperial firman dated 14 May 1753 was issued by the Mughal emperor Ahmad Shah Bahadur, confirming all the concessions made to the French by Salabat Jang, the Subedar of Deccan.

[31]: 11 In December 1753, a paravana of Salabat Jang, Subedar of Deccan conceded to Bussy the circars of Chicacole, Ellore, Rajahmundry and Mustafanagar with an annual revenue Rs.

In 1765 Lord Robert Clive, the then-existing Chief and Council at Vizagapatam obtained from the Mughal emperor Shah Alam a grant of the five Circars.

[33][34] The Article XI of this treaty stated that, Sa Majeste Très Chretienne restituera, de son Coté, tout ce qu'Elle pourroit avoir conquis sur la Grande Bretagne dans les Indes Orientales pendant la presente Guerre, & fera restituer nommement Natal & Tapanouly dans l'Isle de Sumatra.

(In the East Indies Great Britain shall restore to France, in the condition they are now in, the different factories which that Crown possessed, as well as on the coast of Coromandel and Orixa as on that of Malabar, as also in Bengal, at the beginning of the year 1749.

And in order to preserve future peace on the coast of Coromandel and Orixa, the English and French shall acknowledge Mahomet Ally Khan for lawful Nabob of the Carnatick, and Salabat Jing for lawful Subah of the Decan; and both parties shall renounce all demands and pretensions of satisfaction with which they might charge each other, or their Indian allies, for the depredations or pillage committed on the one side or on the other during the war.

A few French citizens in Yanam were fully occupied by these two kinds of profitable business and they had no interest in political and administrative matters that were left entirely to the chief or commandant.

However some French records slightly differ on the dates of return: Pondichéry and Karikal 4 December 1816, Chandernagore 14 January 1817, Yanaon 12 April 1817 and Mahé 22 February 1817.

Had the first occasion of negotiations succeeded then Yanaon would have been ceded to British India long back and its importance would have been relegated to oblivion like some of its nearby ancient English settlements, Injaram and Neelapalle.

Socialist Party was headed by Kamichetty Sri Parassourama Varaprassada Rao Naidu, a strong pro-French leader and later MLA of Yanam.

The resolution remarked[60] Firmly attached and sympathetic towards the Indian Union, our Motherland, we the elected representatives of this establishment, ardently and unanimously desire the immediate integration and without a referendum of the territory of our establishment with that of the Indian Union to which our territory is tied geographically, economically, ethnically and culturally.Later, the mayor, deputy mayor, and over 200 people took refuge in the adjacent areas of India.

[61] After hoisting the Indian National Flag, they formed the revolutionary provisional government of Yanam headed by Dadala Raphael Ramanayya [62] and adopted a resolution declaring "Yanaon a Libéré" (lit.

Towards the end of June 1954, Sri Kewal Singh paid a visit to Yanam and requested Dadala's return to Pondichéry to continue his activities there.

On 1 November 1954, after long years of the independence struggle, the four enclaves of Pondicherry, Yanam, Mahe, and Karikal were transferred de facto to India.

[69] Messrs Edouard Goubert, S. Perumal, Dadala and Sri Pakirisamy Pillai presented addresses to Pandit Nehru in a public meeting in the maidan of Gorimedu.

Every year on 16 August, the De jure Transfer Day (Vidhitāntaraṇa Dinamu in Telugu) was celebrated nominally throughout Puducherry Union Territory.

The lodges that are enclaves in Indian Union are ceded by France as a friendly gesture (par un geste d'amité (French)) on 6 October 1954 at a ceremony in Masulipatam.

[82][77] In the de facto cession treaty signed in October 1954, France has recognized that they lost sovereignty of the two communes (Nettapacom and Tiroubouvane) and two establishments (Mahe and Yanam) w.e.f.