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Nov 5, 2022 · The party wanted the city’s name to reflect the Maratha heritage. Thus officially, Bombay became Mumbai – named after the goddess Mumbadevi, the city’s patron deity. In November 1195, the central government officially changed the English name to Mumbai in November 1995.
Nov 30, 2023 · The city’s official name change, to Mumbai from Bombay happened when regional political party Shiv Sena came into power in 1995. The Shiv Sena saw Bombay as a legacy of British colonialism and wanted the city’s name to reflect its Maratha heritage, hence renaming it to pay tribute to the goddess Mumbadevi.
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Mumbai Travel Guide. The Great Bombay Name Change. In the mid-1990s, Shiv Sena, the Hindu nationalist party in power in Bombay, decided to change the city’s name to Mumbai, a name often...
How the city got renamed. By Christopher Beam. Dec 01, 200810:51 AM. Last week, India’s financial capital, Mumbai, was rocked by a large-scale terrorist attack. In an “Explainer” column published...
After the English gained possession of the city in the 17th century, the Portuguese name was anglicised as Bombay. Ali Muhammad Khan, imperial dewan or revenue minister of the Gujarat province, in the Mirat-i Ahmedi (1762) referred to the city as Manbai .
In 1996, the newly elected Shiv Sena-led government renamed the city of Bombay to the native name Mumbai, after the Koli native Marathi people Goddess Mumbadevi. [185] [186] Soon colonial British names were shed to assert or reassert local names, [187] such as Victoria Terminus being renamed to Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus on 4 March 1996 ...
