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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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Nov 5, 2022 · 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.
Bombay was renamed Mumbai on 6 March 1996. 'Panoramic View of Mumbai taken from Malabar Hill' (1862), a watercolour on 5 folding pages, by Mary Ann Scott-Moncrieff
4 days ago · Mumbai, the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra, was known as Bombay during the British colonial period. The name Bombay is believed to be an Anglicized corruption of the original name Mumbai, or possibly of Bom Baim, which means “Good Harbour” in Portuguese.
While Mumbai is still referred to as Bombay by some of its residents and by some Indians from other regions, mention of the city by a name other than Mumbai has been controversial. People from Mumbai. A resident of Mumbai is called Mumbaikar (pronounced [mumbəikəɾ]) in Marathi, in which the suffix -kar means a resident of.
After initially referring to it by the name Ilha da Boa Vida (Island of Good Life), [27] the Portuguese called the islands by various names like Mombai, Mombay, Mombayn, Mombaym, and Bombai, which finally took the written form Bombaim, still common in current Portuguese use. [28]
Dec 1, 2008 · 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 in July 2006, Christopher...
