The station is open Dupleix in 1906. She paid tribute to Joseph Francois Dupleix, Marquis (Landrecies, 1697 Paris, 1763), director and french colonizer. Governor General of India Company in 1742, he developed the commercial position of France and fought against the English influence. Despite the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748), he established over southern Dekkan a real french protectorate, that the English ruinèrent. In 1754, he was recalled to France. He had invested in India all his fortune, which was never repaid him.