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Mumbai Or Bombay?
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On TV this morning I watched a report from Mumbai, and although the Media continued to address it as Mumbai, the residents interviewed continued to refer to their capital city as Bombay.
Could this be because their masters want to remove all trace of British rule, while it's people still hold a certain endearment for the British?
Could this be because their masters want to remove all trace of British rule, while it's people still hold a certain endearment for the British?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.What is as likely as anything else is that, in conversation with UK media, Indians (so very often wanting to say what they think the listener wants to hear, as I recall) will use the name they believe foreigners are more familiar with. The same inclination drives people to, when in the company of those they believe want to hear it, flatter them with whatever they think will work, including expressing nostalgia for foreign rule and, likely, the listener will readily fall for it. Remember too that the place names of Empire were often very alien to the indigenous population, (re)applying local ones is not inventing anything.