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Since India gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1947, names of many cities, streets, places, and buildings throughout the Republic of India have been systematically changed, often to better approximate their native endonymic pronunciation. Certain traditional names that have not been changed, however, continue to be popular.
In the early years after Indian independence, many name changes were affected in northern India for English spellings of Hindi place names that had simply been Romanized inconsistently by the British administration – such as the British spelling Jubbulpore, renamed Jabalpur (जबलपुर) among the first changes in 1947. These changes ...
This is a list of cities and towns whose names were officially changed at one or more points in history. It does not include gradual changes in spelling that took place over long periods of time. see also: Geographical renaming, List of names of European cities in different languages, and List of renamed places in the United States
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Renamed Tel Aviv-Yafo in 1950 after the annexation of Jaffa (Yafo). Thiruvananthapuram, India – formerly Trivandrum. Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada in 1970 from the merger of twin cities of Fort William and Port Arthur. Tokyo – formerly Edo, until it became the capital of Japan in 1868. Tolyatti – formerly known as Stavropol-on-Volga and ...
Place names in India are usually in Indian languages. Other languages include Portuguese, Dutch, English and Arabic. Since Indian Independence, several Indian cities have adopted pre-English names, most notably Chennai (formerly Madras), Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore), Visakhapatnam (formerly Waltair), and Pune (formerly Poona).
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List of renamed places in India; Renaming of cities in India; S. List of Indian state and union territory name etymologies; W. Oikonyms in Western and South Asia