Question: For how many years did Denmark–Norway held colonial possessions in India including the Bungalow on the Beach?
Context: The Paris Colonial Exhibition (or ""Exposition coloniale internationale"", International Colonial Exhibition) was a six-month colonial exhibition held in Paris, France in 1931 that attempted to display the diverse cultures and immense resources of France's colonial possessions. Phinehas Abraham was a West Indian merchant; born in the island of Jamaica about the beginning of the nineteenth century; and died 19 Feb. 1887.  He was one of the last survivors of the body of West Indian merchants who contributed in a high degree to the prosperity of the West Indian colonial possessions.  In former years Abraham was one of the largest landed proprietors in the island of Jamaica.  He held various offices outside the Jewish community.  He was senior justice of the peace for the parish of Trelawny in Jamaica, an agent of Lloyd's of London and the last surviving captain in the Trelawny militia.  He was also one of the earliest members of the Berkeley Street Synagogue, London. Danish India was the name given to the colonies of Denmark (Denmark–Norway before 1813) in India, forming part of the Danish colonial empire.  Denmark–Norway held colonial possessions in India for more than 200 years, including the town of Tharangambadi in present-day Tamil Nadu state, Serampore in present-day West Bengal, and the Nicobar Islands, currently part of India's union territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.  The Danish presence in India was of little significance to the major European powers as they presented neither a military nor a mercantile threat.  Dano-Norwegian ventures in India, as elsewhere, were typically undercapitalised and never able to dominate or monopolise trade routes in the same way that the companies of Portugal, the Netherlands and Britain could.  Against all odds however they managed to cling to their colonial holdings, and at times, to carve out a valuable niche in international trade by taking advantage of wars between larger countries and offering foreign trade under a neutral flag.  For this reason their presence was tolerated until 1845, when their alliance with a defeated France led to the colony being ceded to the British East Indian company. The Bungalow on the Beach is an 18th-century Danish colonial house which has belonged to the Governor of Danish India, who was styled Opperhoved, and after their exit in 1845, to the British administrator of the colony.  Built in the 18th century, opposite the Fort Dansborg, by the Danish East India Company in what was once a pepper trading post of Tranquebar, now known as Tharangambadi, in Tamil Nadu, India.  Tranquebar is a Danish term and came from the native Tamil word Tarangambadi, meaning 'place of the singing waves'. L'Inde française or ""L'Inde française ou Collection de dessins lithographiés représentant les divinités, temples, costumes, physionomies, meubles, armes, et ustensiles, des peuples Hindous qui habitent les possessions françaises de l'Inde, et en général la côte de Cormandel et le Malabar"" was a collection of 144 lithographed plates issued in 25 parts between 1827 and 1835 by J.-J.  Chabrelie, and the first important French book on India.  "L'Inde française" was about the French possessions in India, which were colonial possessions rather than mere trading posts.  They included Pondichéry, Karikal and Yanaon on the Coromandel Coast, Mahé on the Malabar Coast, and Chandernagor in Bengal. The Military history of North America can be viewed as having four distinct phases.  The first is the precolonial period, during which warfare and conquest occurred from time to time between Native American tribes and alliances.  The second is the colonial period following the European discovery of the continent, during which the region saw both European efforts to wrest territories from their native inhabitante, and where European nations used their North American colonial possessions to wage wars with one another for the control of resources.  This phase culminated in the American Revolution, with the continent thereafter shifting away from European military domination.  The third phase was one of internal discord on the continent, including skirmishes between the United States and Canada, the Mexican–American War, the American Civil War and similar internal violence in Mexico, the Indian Wars, and the expulsion of the last major colonial bastion in the Spanish–American War. Despite being neutral at the start of World War II, Belgium and its colonial possessions found themselves at war after the country was invaded by German forces on 10 May 1940.  After 18 days of fighting in which Belgian forces were pushed back into a small pocket in the north-east of the country, the Belgian military surrendered to the Germans, beginning an occupation that would endure until 1944.  The surrender of 28 May was ordered by King Leopold III without the consultation of his government and sparked a political crisis after the war.  Despite the capitulation, many Belgians managed to escape to the United Kingdom where they formed a government and army-in-exile on the Allied side. Russian America (Russian: Русская Америка , "Russkaya Amerika") was the name of the Russian colonial possessions in North America from 1733 to 1867.  Settlements spanned parts of what are now the U.S. states of California, Alaska, and two ports in Hawaii.  Formal incorporation of the possessions by Russia did not take place until the Ukase of 1799 which established a monopoly for the Russian–American Company and also granted the Russian Orthodox Church certain rights in the new possessions.  Many of its possessions were abandoned in the 19th century.  In 1867 Russia sold its last remaining possessions to the United States of America for $7.2 million ($ in today's terms). Eurasians in Singapore are individuals of mixed European and Asian descent.  Eurasians have been viewed with mixed fascination and disdain by the European and Asian communities.  Their European ancestry traces to emigrants of countries that span the length and breadth of Europe, although Eurasian migrants to Singapore in the 19th century came largely from other colonies in Asia, such as British Malaya in particular Malacca and Penang, India including Chittagong (today in Bangladesh) and Goa, the former Portuguese colony in India; the Dutch East Indies and French Indochina.  When the European maritime powers colonised Asian countries, such as India, Ceylon, Malaya, Singapore, Indonesia and Indochina, from the 16th to 20th centuries, they brought into being a new race of people known historically and generally as the Eurasians.  The early Western colonisers were not accompanied by their womenfolk on the perilous journey to Asia.  Consequently, many married the local women of these lands, or formed liaisons with them.  Initially the offspring of such a union were brought up as an appendage of the ruling class and enjoyed advantages not generally accorded the rest of the local Asian population.  In time, as colonial attitudes hardened due to the 1915 Singapore Mutiny and growing independence movement, Eurasians were largely cast aside by the colonial masters and treated much like the rest of the local population.  Eurasians or Kristang Eurasians who generally have some Kristang-speaking ancestry form a sub-group distinct from those who are the offspring of more recent immigrants and expatriates of European and Asian origin and who are also called "Eurasians" in Singapore.  The same or similar distinction exists between on the one hand multi-generation Eurasians (who typically have some Kristang-speaking ancestry) and many of whom would associate with some Kristang or Portuguese-origin cultural practices (e.g. Kristang songs and Portuguese-origin dances like "Jinkli Nona") and dine on Kristang Eurasian dishes like Devil's curry or "curry debal" in Kristang.  However, first- or second-generation Eurasians typically do not have any Kristang-speaking ancestry, do not speak Kristang, generally do not adopt Kristang or Portuguese-origin cultural practices, and are less familiar with Kristang Eurasian cuisine.  First-generation Eurasians are people whose parents are not Eurasians.  Multi-generation Eurasians are people whose parents or forefathers are Eurasians. The following list of U.S. colonial possessions includes territory that the United States has from time to time in its history had under its control in a fashion similar to a colonial possession, ignoring areas that have now become U.S. states and those areas that due to warfare were held under temporary U.S. military command.
Answer: 200 years