Mahe, is home to a capital city.  
Its Granitic Group contains over 40 granite islands, including Silhouette Island,  Aride Island, and the home of the coco-de-mer, Praslin Island.  The rest of the islands that make up this island group's Inner Group are Bird Island and Denis Island.   James Mancham was overthrown in a coup in this nation that made  socialist France Rene a single-party ruler. This chain's most populous island, ? Mahe, is home to a capital city.  For 10 points, name this group of islands once colonized by both France and Great Britain, located in the Indian Ocean northeast of Madagascar.
Its Granitic Group contains over 40 granite islands, including Silhouette Island,  Aride Island, and the home of the coco-de-mer, Praslin Island.  
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