“india leads the name-changing and respelling campaign. that colorful madras shirt you’re wearing will soon be a chennai shirt, because that’s the new name of the city, drawn from the tamil language. and if you’re a tourist planning a visit to the famed black hole of calcutta, you need to know that the name of india’s former capital city is now spelled kolkata, a closer approximation of the bengali name. “if i had to hazard a guess,” says the man from n. g.-i. a., “i’d say that within a year or so, bangalore will likely change its name to the local bengaluru, from the kannada language. this is all an effort to shed the colonial british names and reassert local, indigenous names.” why is south asia, especially in india, changing the names of its cities?

In the case of India, the government has tried to change names because they want to get rid of colonial English names.

Due to the States Reorganization Act of 1956, India reorganized the territories of the country and some names were changed. The changes have taken into consideration the different languages or dialects spoken in India.

Other changes in English spelling were made to adapt it to the phonetic sound of the region.

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gold discovery in california, and pioneer settlers were sometimes pulled west because they wanted to make a better living. others received letters from friends or family members who had moved west. these letters often told about a good life on the frontier. the biggest factor that pulled pioneers west was the opportunity to buy land.

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