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The backstory: How did Bombay get its name? The city, originally a collection of seven islands, was called ‘Bom Bahia’ or ‘good bay’ by the Portuguese after it was colonised.
- Saurabh Kulshreshtha
Sep 19, 2016 · 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 · 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.
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.
Aug 14, 2018 · Essentially it was thought the name should be ditched because it was the English name for the city - believed to be a mispronunciation of Mumbai. 2 Name-changing...
5 days ago · Bombay restored its name to Mumbai officially in 1995. It became known as Bombay during the British colonial period. The name Bombay was possibly an Anglicized corruption of Mumbai or perhaps of Bom Baim (“Good Harbour”), supposedly a Portuguese name for the locale.
Maybe Mumbai simply takes its name from the goddess Mumbadevi, whose shrine stood at the site of the present-day Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, before it was moved to Bhuleshwar in the...
