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November 01, 2014

Important Details you should know about Recent Name Changes of Indian Cities

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Friends, as you might have already know, Bangalore has shed its anglicized name and from today it will be called as Bengaluru. On the eve of the 59th Karnataka Rajyotsava, the government today (1st November 2014) issued a special gazette notification to change the names of 12 cities and towns in Karnataka. It is going to be an important topic for upcoming competitive exams. So let's have a close look on this name change issue.

Name change of 12 cities in Karnataka (important dates and events)

  • 11th December 2005 : Karnataka State Government accepted a proposal from UR Ananthamurthy to change Bangalore to Bengaluru.
  • 27th September 2006 : BBMP passes the proposal to change the name from Bangalore to Bengaluru.
  • 30th August 2012 : Union Government seeks comments from Survey of India on renaming of Bangalore.
    • Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s nod came after Survey of India, Ministry of Railways, Department of Posts, Ministry of Science and Technology and Intelligence Bureau have given their No Objection and clearance for the change in the nomenclature of these 11 cities.
  • 17th October 2014 : Centre clears the proposal to rename Bangalore and other cities in Karnataka.
  • 1st November 2014 (Kannada Rajyothsava day) : All these cities are officially called with the new names.

List of Old and New Names


S. No
Old Name
New Name
1
Bangalore
Bengaluru
2
Belgaum
Belagavi
3
Bellary
Ballari
4
Bijapur
Vijapura
5
Chikmagalur
Chikkamagaluru
6
Gulbarga
Kalaburgi
7
Hospet
Hosapete
8
Hubli
Hubballi
9
Mangalore
Mangaluru
10
Mysore
Mysure
11
Shimoga
Shivamogga
12
Tumkur
Tumakuru

Brief History of Name Changes of Cities in India

Renaming of cities in India started in 1947, following the end of the British imperial period in India, and continues today. Bombay became Mumbai in 1995 after a 40-year struggle; Madras changed to Chennai in 1996; Calcutta to Kolkata in 2001; Trivandrum to Thiruvananthapuram in 1991; Pondicherry to Puducherry in 2006; Poona to Pune in 2008; and Orissa to Odisha in 2011 and Bangalore is the latest city to have its name changed.

The renaming of states and territories in India has also taken place, but until recently with actual substantial name changes in both local language and in English such as the old British state name of Travancore-Cochin to Kerala (1956). The most notable recent exceptions being Indian English spelling-changes of Orissa to Odisha (March 2011) and the Union Territory of Pondicherry (which includes the City of Pondicherry) to Puducherry.

Some important Name Changes in India
  • Aleppey → Alappuzha
  • Bangalore → Bengaluru
  • Baroda → Vadodra
  • Calicut → Kozhikode
  • Cannanore → Kannur
  • Chirayinkil → Chirayinkeezhu
  • Cochin → Kochi
  • Fort William → Calcutta → Kolkata (January 2001)
  • Indravati → Umravti → Amravati
  • Jeypore → Jaipur
  • Kanhiyapur → Cawnpore → Kanpur (1948)
  • Kattachakonam → Kesavadasapuram
  • Lakshmanpuri → Lakhanpur → Lakhnau → Lucknow
  • Madras → Chennai (changed August 1996)
  • Mangalore → Mangaluru
  • Mapuça → Mapusa
  • Mumba → Boa Baia → Bombay → Mumbai (1996)
  • New Bombay → Navi Mumbai
  • Ootacamund → Udhagamandalam
  • Orissa →Odisha
  • Palghat → Palakkad
  • Panjim → Panaji
  • Pataliputra → Patna
  • Pondicherry → Puducherry
  • Poona → Pune
  • Qila Rai Pithora → Siri → Tughluqabad → Jahanpanah → Kotla Firoz Shah → Purana Qila → Shahjahanabad → Delhi
  • Quilon → Kollam
  • Tanjore → Thanjavur
  • Thirusirappalli → Trichinopoly → Trichy → Tiruchirappalli
  • Thrishivaperur → Trichur → Thrissur
  • Trivandrum → Thiruvananthapuram
  • Vizagapatam → Visakhapatnam

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20 comments:

  1. Super Like :)

    Thank you

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  3. Thank you very much.

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  4. hai jyothi why u said like this is po job is risky plss tell me

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  5. Aftaabآفتاب القاعدہ حسینNovember 1, 2014 at 8:16 PM

    Thanx

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  6. wow so thanks lots of information :)

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  7. A one stop crisis centre 'Gauravi' for women who are victims of violence has been set up for the first time in which of the following cities in India recently?
    1) Lucknow 2) Bhopal
    3) Hyderabad 4) Pune
    5) None of these

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  8. thanks for the information bro

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  9. 1000000000000000000 likes to jyothi kumar

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  10. Something is better than nothing......

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  11. u r right buddy ;)

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  12. wow,, thanks for the information :)

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  13. tumko mil gya hai na tabhi etra rhe ho...

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  14. Admin, bombay name was changed to mumbai in Nov, 1995. It's wrongly mentioned as 1996 under "Some important name changes in India"

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  15. its bhopal man

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  16. didnt know kolkata was once called fort william..thanks for that..and thanks that british man's name was changed..

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  17. If I post a comment in the page of daily current affairs. It is waiting for gr8ambtionz to authorize the comment, so I am not able to post a comment, so can u please help me

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