Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A shekara ta 1938, Gwamnatin Faransa ta nada shi gwamnan Indiya ta Faransa, wani mulkin mallaka wanda ya girgiza da tashin hankali a cikin masana'antun masana'anta. A yayin da sojojin Faransa ke fama da rauni a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na II, Bonvin ya aika da sakon waya ga gwamnatin Faransa (a Bordeaux) a ranar 20 ga Yuni, 1940, yana bayyana nufin mutanen Indiya ta Faransa don ci gaba da yaƙin a gefen Allies. Koyaya, bayan sanya hannu kan Yarjejeniyar Armistice na 22 ga Yuni, 1940
, nan da nan ya amince da gwamnatin Marshal Pétain. Ba da daɗewa ba bayan haka, a ƙarƙashin matsin lamba daga Kanar Schomberg, British Consul a Pondicherry, wanda ya yi masa gargaɗi cewa Sojojin Indiyawan Biritaniya za su mamaye mulkin mallaka idan bai bayyana ga Janar de Gaulle ba, ya sake yanke shawararsa. A cikin kira ga mutane a ranar 27 ga Yuni, 1940, Bonvin ya ba da sanarwar cewa daular mulkin mallaka ta Faransa (sabili da haka Cibiyoyin Faransa a Indiya) "za su kasance a gefen Birtaniyya har zuwa nasara ta ƙarshe". A ranar 12 ga Yuli, Gwamna Bonvin, ta hanyar Birtaniya, ya tabbatar da De Gaulle game da hadin gwiwar Indiya ta Faransa.