ten places which name have been changed in present time
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Allahabad to Prayagraj
Gurgao to Gurugram
Bombay to Mumbai
Calcutta to Kolkata
Mysore to Mysuru
Mangalore to Mangluru
Bangalore to Bangaluru
Madras to Chennai
Pondicherry to Puducherry
Orrissa to Odisha
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NEW DELHI: After the Uttar Pradesh government renamed Allahabad as Prayagraj last week, calls for renaming Shimla to Shyamala have been gaining momentum. According to reports, the ruling government in Himachal Pradesh is considering a proposal to change its name to Shyamala. Here is a list of few cities that have been renamed in the recent times:
* Allahabad to Prayagraj: The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet last week adopted a proposal to rename the historic city of Allahabad as Prayagraj. However, this is not the first that the name of the city was changed. The city was named Ilahabad by Mughal emperor Akbar, who is said to have built a fort near the Ganga in the city, in the 16th century. It was subsequently renamed as Allahabad by his grandson. Allahabad's new name proposal comes close on the heels of renaming the iconic Mughalsarai railway station after Bharatiya Jana Sangh co-founder Deendayal Upadhyay.
* Gurgaon to Gurugram: In April 2016, the Manohar Lal Khattar government renamed Gurgaon as Gurugram and said that they promised their poll promise made to the people. The corporate hub is home to some 250 Fortune 500 companies and is often refered to as the Millennium City of the future. In the Mahabharata, Gurugram is described as the village of Guru Dronacharya, guru of the Kauravas and Pandavas and hence it came to be known as Gurugram, which with the passage of time was called as Gurgaon. The government argued that the new name would help to preserve the "rich heritage" of the city by emphasising its history and mythological association with Dronacharya.
* Bombay to Mumbai: Bombay's name was changed to Mumbai in 1996, deriving its name from Mumba or Maha-Amba — the name of the patron goddess (Kuladevata) Mumbadevi of the native Koli community. The oldest known names for the city are Kakamuchee and Galajunkja. Other names recorded in the 16th and the 17th centuries include Mombayn (1525), Bombay (1538), Bombain (1552), Bombaym (1552), Monbaym (1554), Mombaim (1563), Mombaym (1644), Bambaye (1666), Bombaiim (1666), Bombeye (1676), Boon Bay (1690),and Bon Bahia. After the English gained possession of the city in the 17th century, the Portuguese name was anglicised as Bombay.
* Calcutta to Kolkata: Calcutta was renamed as Kolkata in 2001, after a bill was passed "in consideration of the historical, social and cultural aspects of the state and its capital city". The city is widely regarded as the "cultural capital" of India, and is also nicknamed the "City of Joy". The name is derived from Kolikata, the name of one of three villages that predated the arrival of the British; the other two being Sutanuti and Govindapur.
* Mysore to Mysuru: Mysore that served as the capital city of the Kingdom of Mysore for nearly six centuries from 1399 until 1956 was renamed as Mysuru in 2014. Mysore is an anglicised version of Mahishuru, which means the abode of Mahisha in vernacular Kannada. According to Hindu mythology, Mysuru is the place where the demon king ruled before Goddess Chamundeshwari killed him.
* Mangalore to Mangaluru: The chief port city of Karnataka was renamed as Mangaluru in 2014. The city has been named after the deity Mangaladevi, the presiding deity of the Mangaladevi temple. The city is also known as Mangaluru in Kannada. Mangaluru's diverse communities have different names for the city in their languages. In Tulu, the primary spoken language, the city is called Kudla. In Konkani, Mangalore is referred to as Kodiyal, while in Malayalam, Mangalore is called Mangalapuram and the Beary name for the city is Maikala.
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* Bangalore to Bengaluru: Often referred to as the 'IT capital of India', Bangalore became Bangaluru in November 2006. Bangalore represented an anglicised version of the Kannada language name, Bengaluru. It is the name of a village near Kodegehalli and was copied by Kempegowda to the city of Bangalore. In a ninth-century Western Ganga Dynasty inscription in Begur, Bengaluru is referred to as the place in which a battle was fought in 890 CE.
* Madras to Chennai: The city was renamed as Chennai in 1996, however, the name Madras continues in occasional use for the city. Reportedly, the name Madras was derived from Madraspattinam, a fishing-village north of Fort St George. The British military mapmakers believed Madras was originally Mundir-raj or Mundiraj.
* Pondicherry to Puducherry: A Union territory, Pondicherry was renamed in 2006. Also referred to as Pondy, its name in Tamil, Puducherry, literally means a 'new town'. Puducherry is one of only two union territories in India (the other being Delhi), that is entitled by a special constitutional amendment to have an elected legislative assembly and a cabinet of ministers, thereby conveying partial statehood.