The study is devoted to the development of Pondicherry during the French Revolution, specifically in the years 1785–1791. The author in the introduction the author recapitulates historiography devoted to the impacts that the French Revolution had in the French territorial possessions in India. He explains, why the French Revolution in the French colonies in India had a specific character. It was due to reaction to the unsatisfactory policy of the old regime in the preceding period, likewise from unsatisfactory and unpopular reforms in numerous spheres. The news about the Revolution in France led to creating representative bodies that would not solve the same problems like the French National Assembly. The following course of the Revolution in Indian colonies was dynamized by primary milestones of the development in France whose impact in each of the colonies was different. The development in Pondicherry was relatively calm. The main point of disputes was the question of involving classes of Indians and Eurasians into political process. While requests of the half-breeds had been accepted, crowds of Indian citizens remained beyond the politic structure despite the role they had in the economic life of the colony. The key revolutionary requests formulated in that colony in February 1790 would be accepted by the National Assembly due to a trouble free character for the centre in Paris.