List of renamed places in India

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In India, many traditional place names were changed during British rule, as well as during the earlier Muslim conquests. Since the British withdrew from India in 1947, names of many cities, streets, places, and buildings throughout India have been changed. Certain traditional names that have not been changed, however, continue to be popular.

States or provinces[edit]

Union territories[edit]

  • Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Islands to Lakshadweep (change effective from 1 November 1973)
  • Pondicherry to Puducherry (change effective from 1 October 2006)

Cities and towns[edit]

Andhra Pradesh[edit]

Former names of cities and towns in Andhra Pradesh at various times (Pre-Mauryan, Maurayan, Satavahana, Andhra Ikshvaku, Vishnukundina, Eastern Chalukya, Kakateeya, Musunuri, Pemmasani etc. rule) during the course of history. Andhra was mentioned as An-to-lo by Yuan Chang.

  • Amarapura (during Vishnukundina Dynasty and Dhanyakatakam during Satavahana dynasty) to Amaravati
  • Bezawada (anciently Vijayavatika during Mahabharata Times and Rajendrachola pura during Telugu Chola Dynasty) to Vijayawada
  • Bhavapuri[5] to Bhaava-pattana[5] to Bhavapatta[6] or Bhavapattu[7] to Bapatla, known for Bhavanarayanaswami Temple (Guntur district)
  • Birudankaravolu[8] or Birudankitavolu or Birudankinavolu or Birudankitapuram or Birudankinapuram to Bighole or Biccavole to Biccavolu (East Godavari district)
  • Dasanapura or Darsi
  • Devapura or Devada (Vizianagaram district)
  • Dhamnakada to Dhamnakata to Dhamnakataka to Dhyanakara[9] or Dhaanyakapura[9] or Dhaanyakataka[9] (Mauryan and Satavahana times) or Dhaanyakatakamu to Dhanakataka[10] to Dharanikota (Guntur district)
  • Dhandapura[11] or Dhandaprolu or Tsandavolu[citation needed] to Chandavolu to Chandolu (Guntur district)
  • Dhakshatapovana[12] or Dhakshavatika[12] or Dhaksharamamu to Draksharamam (East Godavari district)
  • Dugdhapavanapuramu or Upamanyupuramu or Kshirapuramu or Kshiraramamu or Palakota (Palathota) or Palakolanu to Palakollu (West Godavari district)
  • Durvasapuram[13] to Duvva (West Godavari district)
  • Ekasilanagaramu or Vontimitta to Ontimitta, known for (Potana wrote Andhra Mahabhagavatam at Ontimitta Ramalayam) (Kadapa district)
  • Gadapa to Kadapa to Kurpah to Cuddapah (by British) to Kadapa
  • Garthapuri or Guntur (Guntur district)
  • Gonkavaram to Gokavaram, East Godavari district
  • Govatika to Govada
  • Gurajala to Gurazala (Guntur district)
  • Helapuri[14] (Eastern Chalukya times) or Eluru[15] to Ellore[15] by British to Eluru (change effective 1949)
  • Juvikallu to Julakallu to Zulakallu (Guntur district)
  • Madhavipattana or Gurindalastha to Gurijala or Gurajala to Gurazala (during British era)
  • Kakinandiwada to Cocanada (by British) to Kakinada
  • Kalidindi to Madhurantakacholanalluru (Telugu Choda times) to Kalidindi (Krishna District)
  • Kanakagiri to Kanigiri (now in Prakasam District, previously in Nellore District)
  • Kandanavrolu to Kandenavolu to Kurnool
  • Kandarapura or Kanteru (Guntur District)
  • Kantakasela or Kantikossula or Ghantasala
  • Karmmarashtra (during Pallava period) for Ongole town and surroundings watered by Gundlakamma river.
  • Kharapuri to Karyampudi (venue of the battle of Palnadu) to Karampudi or Karempudi or Caurampoody (by Europeans) to Karampudi
  • Kharamandalamu or Karimanal or Cholamandalam or Choramandalam[16] to Choramandala (by the Portuguese) to Choromandel (by the Dutch) to Coromandal (by the British) [17]
  • Kondapalli[lower-alpha 1] to Mustafanagar[18] (during Qutub Shahi and early Asaf Jahi times) to Kondapalli
  • Kondaveedu or Gopinathapuram to Murtazanagar (during Qutub Shahi and early Asaf Jahi times) to Kondaveedu
  • Krövachuru to Krosuru (Guntur district)
  • Kundinapuram (near Kondaveedu) to Ameenabad (Guntur district)
  • Mahadevicherla (cheruvu) or Mahadevitataka to Madevicherla to Macherla (Guntur district)
  • Mahendragiri or Pistapura or Pittapore to Pithapuram (East Godavari district)
  • Matsyapuri (Mauryan and Satavahana times) or Masolia (as known by Greek and Roman historians) or Chepalarevu (locally) or Machilipatnam or Masulipatam (by British, Dutch) or Bandar (by Qutub Shahis and Asaf Jahis) to Bandaru or Machilipatnam
  • Nelliooru or Nellipuram or Dhaanyapuram or Vikrama Simhapuri to Nelluru to Nellore by British
  • Neminadhunuru to Nedunuru (Amalapuram Taluk West Godavri District)
  • Niravadyapuramu or Niravadyaprolu (during Eastern Chalukya times) to Nidadavole to Nidadavolu
  • Nrusimhapuri to Narasimhapuramu to Narasapur to Narasapuramu West Godavari District
  • Ongole district to Prakasam district
  • Pallavanadu or Palanadu or Pallenadu to Palnadu (Guntur district)
  • Peddapalli to Petapoly by the Dutch settlers to Pettipolee or Pettipoly by British or Nizampatnam (during Asaf Jahi era) (Guntur district)
  • Puruhutikanagaram, Puruhutikapuram, Puruhutikapatnam, Peethikapuramu or Pistapura to Pithapuram (East Godavari district)
  • Penuganchiprolu or Pennegentspoel (by Europeans) (Krishna district)
  • Prathipalapura (Pre-Mauryan era) to Bhattiprolu (Krishna district)
  • Prolavaram to Polavaram, Krishna district
  • Prudhvipuram or Prudhilapuram or Podili
  • Rajamahendravaramu or Rajamahendri to Rajahmundry to Rajamahendravaramu
  • Rajavolu to Razole (by the British) or Rajolu
  • Samarlakota to Samalkota (East Godavari district)
  • Skandapuri or Kandukuru (Prakasam district)
  • Srikakulamu to Chicacole or Sikkolu to Srikakulam
  • Sriparvata (Maurayan and Satavahana times) or Vijayapuri to Nagarujunikonda or Nagarjunakonda (Guntur District)
  • Tarakapuri[19] or Tanuku (West Godavari district)
  • Kandarapura or Skandapura or Tambrapasthana or Tambrapa or Tambrapura or Tamrapuram or Chembrolu (capital of Ganapathideva Gaja Sahiniraya) to Chebrolu (Guntur District)
  • Vangalaprolu or Vangavolu to Vangolu to Ongolu to Ongole by British (Prakasam District)
  • Vardhamanapuramu to Vardhamanu to Vaddamanu (Guntur district)
  • Veligandla or Maarganaarayanapuramu[20] to Veligandla (now in Prakasam District, previously in Nellore District)
  • Vengi[21] or Pedavegi (West Godavari district)
  • Vidarbhapuri or Gudiwada (Krishna district)
  • Vijayavatika (Mahabharata times) to Rajendracholapuram (Telugu Choda times) to Bejjamwada to Bezawada by British to Vijayawada
  • Vishnukundinapuramu (Vishnukundina times) to Vinukonda (Guntur district)
  • Waltair to Vizagapatam to Visakhapatnam

Assam[edit]

Chhattisgarh[edit]

Gujarat[edit]

Haryana[edit]

Himachal Pradesh[edit]

Goa[edit]

Karnataka[edit]

Effective from 1 November 2014

Kerala[edit]

Madhya Pradesh[edit]

Maharashtra[edit]

Mizoram[edit]

Odisha[edit]

Puducherry[edit]

  • Pondicherry to Puducherry (change effective from 1 October 2006)
  • Yanaon to Yanam (change effective from merger with Indian Union)

Punjab[edit]

Rajasthan[edit]

  • Ajaymeru to Ajmer
  • Dhedhi Dhani to Mansanagar (District Sikar) (change effective from 27 April 2011)

Tamil Nadu[edit]

Telangana[edit]

Uttar Pradesh[edit]

West Bengal[edit]

See also[edit]

See also: Renaming of cities in India

Explanatory notes[edit]

  1. ↑ Kondapalli was the former and also the present name

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "The Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966".
  2. ↑ http://www.lawsofindia.org/pdf/himachal_pradesh/1966/1966HP31.pdf
  3. ↑ Dhawan, Himanshi (24 October 2009). "Orissa now Odisha". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
  4. ↑ "Orissa celebrates Odisha". The Times of India. 5 November 2011. Archived from the original on 26 April 2013. Retrieved 2011-12-03.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Stories of Bapatla, a Seacoast Town". The Hans India. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
  6. ↑ Annual Report of the Department of Archaeology & Museums, Andhra Pradesh . Government of Andhra Pradesh. 1981. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
  7. ↑ Kumari, M. Krishna (1985-09-01). Rule Of The Chalukya-Cholas In Andhradesa. B.R. Pub. Corp. ISBN 9788170182542. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
  8. ↑ Natesan, G. A. (1972). The Indian Review. G.A. Natesan & Company.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Das, Devarapalli Jithendra (1993). The Buddhist Architecture in Andhra. 55: Books & Books. ISBN 9788185016351. Retrieved 8 June 2017.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  10. ↑ Sithpati, P. (1980). New sathvahana sculptures from anditra anwravati. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
  11. ↑ Kumari, M. Krishna (1990). Social and Cultural Life in Medieval Andhra. Discovery Publishing House. p. 11. ISBN 9788171411023. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Moorthy, K. K. (1994). The aalayas of Andhra Pradesh: a sixteen-flower-garland. Message Publications.
  13. ↑ (India), Andhra Pradesh; Sivasankaranarayana, Bh; Rajagopal, M. V.; Ramesan, N. (1979). Andhra Pradesh District Gazetteers: West Godavari. Director of Print. and Stationery at the Government Secretariat Press; [copies can be had from: Government Publication Bureau. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
  14. ↑ Unnisa, edited by Syeda Azeem; Rav, S. Bhupatthi (2013). Sustainable solid waste management (Online-Ausg. ed.). Toronto: Apple Academic Press. p. 49. ISBN 978-1-926895-24-6. Retrieved 18 September 2015. {{cite book}}: |first1= has generic name (help)
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Stone, Peter F. (2013-11-19). Oriental Rugs: An Illustrated Lexicon of Motifs, Materials, and Origins. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4629-1184-4. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  16. ↑ Hunter, Sir William Wilson (23 December 1885). "The Imperial Gazetteer of India". Trübner & Company – via Google Books.
  17. ↑ Committee, Madras Tercentenary Celebration (23 December 1994). The Madras Tercentenary Commemoration Volume. Asian Educational Services. ISBN 9788120605374 – via Google Books.
  18. ↑ Swarnalatha, P. (2005). The World of the Weaver in Northern Coromandel, C.1750-c.1850. Orient Blackswan. p. 11. ISBN 9788125028680.
  19. ↑ "About Tanuku Municipality | Tanuku Municipality". tanuku.cdma.ap.gov.in. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
  20. ↑ Prasad, E. S. M. (1997-01-01). Studies in the Natural, Historical, and Cultural Geography and Ethnography of Coastal Andhra: Based on Inscriptions from the Earliest to 1325 A.D. Bharatiya Book Corporation. ISBN 9788185122243.
  21. ↑ Murthi, G. V. Satyanarayana (1968). Abridgement and Reform of Telugu Script. Andhra University Press.
  22. ↑ Kumar, Ashok (12 April 2016). "Gurgaon will now be called Gurugram". The Hindu.
  23. ↑ "Goanobserver.com". www.goanobserver.com.
  24. ↑ 24.00 24.01 24.02 24.03 24.04 24.05 24.06 24.07 24.08 24.09 24.10 24.11 24.12 24.13 24.14 24.15 24.16 "Government approves new names of 25 towns". NDTV. Press Trust of India. 12 February 2012.
  25. ↑ Christopher Beam (1 December 2008). "Why Did Bombay Become Mumbai? How the city got renamed". www.slate.com. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  26. ↑ Levi, Leone (1863). "Annals of British Legislation: Being a Classified and Analysed Summary of Public Bills, Statutes, Accounts and Papers, Reports of Committees and of Commissioners, and of Sessional Papers Generally, of the Houses of Lords and Commons; Together with Accounts of Commercial Legislation, Tariffs, and Facts, Relating to Foreign Countries".
  27. ↑ http://www.madconline.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Official_Resolution.pdf
  28. ↑ "In tribute to India's 'Missile Man' Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam, Wheeler Island named after him". Zee News. 4 September 2015.
  29. ↑ "Dr. Kalam Island inspires youth in india. All India youth were proud to be a person lived in this generation for only india". TNP. Hyderabad, India. 5 September 2015.
  30. ↑ "Wheeler Island renamed after Missile Man". The Times of India. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
  31. ↑ ANI (2018-10-20). "UP Guv approves renaming of Allahabad as Prayagraj". Business Standard India. Retrieved 2018-10-21.
  32. ↑ "UP Governor gives permission to change name of Allahabad government institutions to 'Prayagraj' with immediate effect - Republic World". Republic World. Retrieved 2018-10-21.
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