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INDIA, April 3. 2004: A reader asked about the issue of renaming Indian cities, such as Mumbai for Bombay or Kolkata for Calcutta. The website at “source” discusses the issue at some length (though with an unfavorable attitude, one against the changes). They list the following cities which have officially changed their name:



Bombay became Mumbai

Madras became Chennai

Trivandrum, Kerala, became Thiruvananthapuram

Calicut, Kerala, became Kozhikode

Cochin, Kerala, became Kochi

Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, became Koyamutthoor

Calcutta became Kolkata



There are proposed changes:

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, to Karnavati

Luknow, Uttar Pradesh, to Lakshman-puri

Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, to Puduchchery

Delhi to Indraprastha or Dilli (which is how Delhites pronounce “Delhi”)



Not on their list is the ancient name for Allahabad, Prayag.

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