{"id":4103,"date":"2004-04-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/04\/03\/2004-04-03-india-s-cities-what-s-in-a-name\/"},"modified":"2004-04-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-03T12:00:00","slug":"2004-04-03-india-s-cities-what-s-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/04\/03\/2004-04-03-india-s-cities-what-s-in-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Cities, What&#8217;s in a Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/Vienna\/3193\/papers\/india.html\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>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 &#8220;source&#8221; 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:<BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nBombay became Mumbai<BR><br \/>\nMadras became Chennai<BR><br \/>\nTrivandrum, Kerala, became Thiruvananthapuram<BR><br \/>\nCalicut, Kerala, became Kozhikode<BR><br \/>\nCochin, Kerala, became Kochi<BR><br \/>\nCoimbatore, Tamil Nadu, became Koyamutthoor<BR><br \/>\nCalcutta became Kolkata<BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nThere are proposed changes:<BR><br \/>\nAhmedabad, Gujarat, to Karnavati<BR><br \/>\nLuknow, Uttar Pradesh, to Lakshman-puri<BR><br \/>\nPondicherry, Tamil Nadu, to Puduchchery<BR><br \/>\nDelhi to Indraprastha or Dilli (which is how Delhites pronounce &#8220;Delhi&#8221;)<BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nNot on their list is the ancient name for Allahabad, Prayag.<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceINDIA, April 3. 2004: A reader asked about the issue of renaming Indian cities, such as Mumbai for Bombay or,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}