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<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Regarding renaming of cities, I know Mumbai is the name </DIV>
<DIV>used in Marathi and Gujarati for a long time, even before </DIV>
<DIV>the end of British rule in 1947. I was born in that city in </DIV>
<DIV>1932 in a Marathi family. Bambai was the name used by </DIV>
<DIV>Hindi-speakers. When the city expanded (with merger of </DIV>
<DIV>some suburbs), it was called Greater Bombay in English,</DIV>
<DIV>Brihanmumbai in Marathi. Public buses displayed BEST </DIV>
<DIV>(shortfrom of Bombay Electric Supply and Transport Co.)</DIV>
<DIV>To continue it (and not have MEST), authorities accepted</DIV>
<DIV>Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport Company </DIV>
<DIV>as official name. Mumbai is used now in Hindi too. I live </DIV>
<DIV>in Pune since 1997. What used to happen was that trains </DIV>
<DIV>were called Poona Express, Poona Mail. So dual names</DIV>
<DIV>were needed during transition. Now names Mumbai, Pune,</DIV>
<DIV>Nashik, Solapur are in use, for Bombay, Poona, Nasik,</DIV>
<DIV>Sholapur (British-given names). Where Government or</DIV>
<DIV>Government grants are involved, new official names</DIV>
<DIV>are used (such as Mumbai University). But we still have</DIV>
<DIV>names like Bombay Gymkhana, Bombay Chamber of</DIV>
<DIV>Commerce which are private bodies. They cannot be</DIV>
<DIV>forced to change names, under Freedom of Expression,</DIV>
<DIV>a Constitutional right. By the way, some name distortion</DIV>
<DIV>takes place in many languages. London is called</DIV>
<DIV>Londres in French. English is called Ingraji, in Marathi.</DIV>
<DIV>India is British name for Hindustan. Marathi people use</DIV>
<DIV>the window of English for foreign cities. End (s) is silent in</DIV>
<DIV>the French language in word (Paris), not so in English </DIV>
<DIV>and Marathi.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>-- Madhukar N. Gogate (<A href="http://www.mngogate.com/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>www.mngogate.com</A>) </DIV>
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<DIV> </DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Fri, 20/5/11, Richard Barz <I><richard.barz@ANU.EDU.AU></I></B> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: Richard Barz <richard.barz@ANU.EDU.AU><BR>Subject: Re: Question about city names that are being renamed<BR>To: VYAKARAN@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU<BR>Date: Friday, 20 May, 2011, 7:38 AM<BR><BR>
<DIV id=yiv266153689>VYAKARAN: South Asian Languages and Linguistics Net Editors: Tej K. Bhatia, Syracuse University, New York John Peterson, University of Osnabrueck, Germany Details: Send email to <A href="http://in.mc1132.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=listserv@listserv.syr.edu" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:listserv@listserv.syr.edu">listserv@listserv.syr.edu</A> and say: INFO VYAKARAN Subscribe:Send email to <A href="http://in.mc1132.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=listserv@listserv.syr.edu" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:listserv@listserv.syr.edu">listserv@listserv.syr.edu</A> and say: SUBSCRIBE VYAKARAN FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME (Substitute your real name for first_name last_name) Archives: <A href="http://listserv.syr.edu/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://listserv.syr.edu</A> I have only this contribution to make to the discussion of the renaming of Indian cities: We shouldn't think of the former names of Indian cities as
being corrupted by the British. The British only adopted the names of Indian cities as they heard them. Thus "Benares" is simply the Hindi "Banāras" and "Cawnpore" is the Hindi "Kānpur". The problem is one of English spelling and not of British corruption. In choosing English spellings that are more in harmony with modern usage, one can hope that soon there will be an official decision to spell, for example, "Lucknow" something like "Lakhnau". The decision to rename Banaras "Varanasi" involves an attempt to restore an earlier form of the name for nationalistic reasons that are, oddly, rather akin to orientalism. The name "Bombay" is slightly different in that the British acquired the name from the Portuguese along with the place. How the Portuguese created or received the name and what it's relation might be to "Mumbai" is a matter still open to discussion.<BR><BR>Richard Barz<BR><BR>On 19/05/2011 9:26 PM,
Dileep Damle wrote:
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<DIV>Mumbai has always been called Mumbai by speakers of Marathi since certainly the 17th century. Hindi Speakers call it bumbaai, which seems a corruption of the English Bombay. I believe Gujaratis (probably second largest linguistic group after Marathi speakers also call it Mumbai. I was born a Marathi speaking mumbaikar and there was never any doubt in my mind that its proper name is Mumbai.</DIV>
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<DIV>There is little doubt that the move to reassert the local name was triggered by two events. One, the reorganisation of the states on a linguistic basis in the late 1950s when there was a considerable dispute over whether Mumbai should go to Maharashtra or Gujarat and some people also wanted it to become a city state rather like Goa. Maharashtra won out and Mumbai became the state capital, always referred to in the state’s official Marathi language discourse as Mumbai. Second event was the rise of Shiv Sena which claimed to stand for the local Marathi population rather than immigrants from other states and beyond who have always held power in the economic and political fields. Much of the opposition to the name change comes from these ‘outsiders’, who espouse their ancestral connections with Europe.</DIV>
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<DIV>But surely, it is for the people of a place to determine the name of their city and if they want to throw off the place names imposed on them by foreign invaders then who should deny it. It is a European custom that a city is given a different name by each foreign nation, vis London=Londres, Munchen=Munich ,Firenze=Florence, Venezia=Venice. It is certainly not a world-wide phenomenon. We are now in the post-clolonial period and perhaps it is time to stop such arrogance.</DIV>
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<DIV>The British corrupted names of Indian cities Varanasi –> Benares, Vadodra->Baroda, Kanpur –>Cawnpore, Pune-> Poona. Unfortunately the Latin based scripts are terrible at expressing the sounds of words, but the most common and most users of these scripts seem to think that there is something natural and obvious about it. Without some serious attempt to phoneticise these scripts, I fear that this abuse will continue. These ‘name changes’ are often re-spellings and should be welcomed. The Chinese went through a similar process; vis Beijing, Mao Se Dung, Zhou En Lai, ...</DIV>
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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=mahajan@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU href="http://in.mc1132.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=mahajan@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:mahajan@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU">Mahajan, Gyanam</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 18, 2011 11:22 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=VYAKARAN@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU href="http://in.mc1132.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=VYAKARAN@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:VYAKARAN@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU">VYAKARAN@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: Question about city names that are being renamed</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=yiv266153689MsoNormal>Gyanam</DIV>
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<P class=yiv266153689MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'"> South Asian Linguists [<A class=yiv266153689moz-txt-link-freetext href="http://in.mc1132.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=VYAKARAN@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:VYAKARAN@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU">mailto:VYAKARAN@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU</A>] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Mahajan, Gyanam<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 18, 2011 3:19 PM<BR><B>To:</B> <A class=yiv266153689moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="http://in.mc1132.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=VYAKARAN@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:VYAKARAN@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU">VYAKARAN@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU</A><BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Question about city names that are being renamed</SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=yiv266153689MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: rgb(31,73,125); FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'">Greetings from UCLA. There is a UC Berkeley paper that might be of interest and it also provides several references </SPAN><A href="http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~easwaran/papers/india.html" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~easwaran/papers/india.html</A>. </DIV>
<P class=yiv266153689MsoNormal>I remember another article which pointed out that the Bombay Stock Exchange or Bombay High Court or Madras University etc. have retained their name. I will try and find the link to that article and pass it on.</DIV>
<P class=yiv266153689MsoNormal>Best,</DIV>
<P class=yiv266153689MsoNormal>Gyanam</DIV>
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<P class=yiv266153689MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'"> South Asian Linguists [<A class=yiv266153689moz-txt-link-freetext href="http://in.mc1132.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=VYAKARAN@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:VYAKARAN@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU">mailto:VYAKARAN@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU</A>] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Harold Schiffman<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 18, 2011 4:31 PM<BR><B>To:</B> <A class=yiv266153689moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="http://in.mc1132.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=VYAKARAN@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:VYAKARAN@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU">VYAKARAN@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU</A><BR><B>Subject:</B> Question about city names that are being renamed</SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=yiv266153689MsoNormal>VYAKARAN: South Asian Languages and Linguistics Net Editors: Tej K. Bhatia, Syracuse University, New York John Peterson, University of Osnabrueck, Germany Details: Send email to <A href="http://in.mc1132.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=listserv@listserv.syr.edu" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:listserv@listserv.syr.edu">listserv@listserv.syr.edu</A> and say: INFO VYAKARAN Subscribe:Send email to <A href="http://in.mc1132.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=listserv@listserv.syr.edu" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:listserv@listserv.syr.edu">listserv@listserv.syr.edu</A> and say: SUBSCRIBE VYAKARAN FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME (Substitute your real name for first_name last_name) Archives: <A href="http://listserv.syr.edu/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://listserv.syr.edu</A> Hi, all:<BR><BR>I've been asked by a colleague in another (non-South Asian) area of the world<BR>what is the history of colonial city naming in
India, and whether it is possible to<BR>reconstruct what the "original" names for Bombay/Mumbai, Madras/Chennai, and<BR>Calcutta/Kolkata. <BR><BR>Two questions in particular I have is whether (1) Bombay was ever called Mumbai by<BR>speakers of other languages of India, other than Marathi, and (2) when exactly did the<BR>call for renaming Bombay as Mumbai began? I'd be interested to know how recently<BR>this phenomenon is. <BR><BR>I know that in the case of Madras/Chennai, I never heard of "Chennai" when I first went<BR>to Tamilnadu (then called Madras State) in 1965 and only later was there a push to rename the<BR>city.<BR><BR>I keep in mind an incident from when I was involved in SEASSI and went to Hanoi to<BR>recruit teachers of Vietnamese. We noticed that when speaking Vietnamese, people<BR>referred to Saigon as Saigon, but when speaking English, they called it Ho Chi Minh City.<BR>So I'm wondering whether this practice is all
current in referring to Indian city names.<BR><BR>Hal Schiffman<BR clear=all><BR>-- <BR>=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<BR><BR>Harold F. Schiffman<BR><BR>Professor Emeritus of <BR>Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <BR>Dept. of South Asia Studies <BR>University of Pennsylvania<BR>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<BR><BR>Phone: (215) 898-7475<BR>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <BR><BR>Email: <A href="http://in.mc1132.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=haroldfs@gmail.com" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</A><BR><A href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target=_blank
rel=nofollow>http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</A> <BR><BR>-------------------------------------------------</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></td></tr></table>