Mumbai or Bombay?
British newspaper The Independent will switch back to using Bombay rather than Mumbai when referring to India's financial capital, its editor said yesterday. Amol Rajan said the move was a stand against what he said was the closed-minded view of Hindu nationalists. Shiv Sena renamed the western Indian city in 1995 after the goddess Mumbadevi, the protector of fisherman who were the area's original inhabitants. Marathi speakers had always called the city "Mumbai, whereas "Bombay" was an anglicised take on the Portuguese colonial name "Bom Bahia", or "good bay".
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