The People?s Linguistic Survey of India is a rights-based movement that carries out a nation-wide survey of Indian languages, especially languages of fragile communities such as the nomadic, coastal, island, hill and forest communities This book is Part I of Volume 23 (Puducherry-Hindi) of The People's Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI), undertaken and executed by Bhasha Research and Publication Center, Baroda. It contains information on the languages and linguistic variety of the Puducherry Union Territory of India. The languages included in this book are: Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and French, as well as the cultural and spiritual aspects of Puducherry.