I'm not sure if the French would have done that in India. A part of it is the issue I mentioned before about the Revolution--if in a TL France gets all or part of India, it's probably rich and powerful enough that the Revolution (though in some form probably inevitable) will be changed beyond all recognition, so the character of the resulting state will be different. Secondly, India I think was viewed by Europe as more of an old, respected civilisation so I suspect any moves on that score would be rather more circumspect--and, as other people have mentioned, the French-focused part of India was more dependent on princely states, so the French would still have the attitude of not wanting to piss them off with 'civilising' ideas.