Orissa to become Odisha soon
The governments at both the state and central levels can work on this re-naming excerise, as a manner of discarding its colonial legacy, before the 2010 Commonwealth games, including the name of the national capital.
THE LEGACY of British names in the country to states and cities, received another setback,with the state of Orissa being renamed as Odisha. This process of renaming places has been carried on since the post-independence era.
The process has existed not only in India, but also in other countries. Many countries like China and Bangladesh have also respelt their capitals as per their actual pronunciation. There has also been a suggestion by the Union sports minister MS Gill, to rename the capital city, Delhi to Dehli (Hindi meaning: Entrance), as it used to be, before the British came to India.
The governments at both the state and central levels can work on this re-naming excerise, as a manner of discarding its colonial legacy, before the 2010 Commonwealth games, including the name of the national capital.
There has been a similar demand to change the name of West Bengal to Bangla. The state government tried to enforce such a resolution earlier, but, failed to forward a unanimous state assembly resolution, passed on July 20, 1999, to the Union government.
In this case, it seems senseless to name a state as West Bengal when, the erstwhile East Bengal is now Bangladesh. Otherwise also, the names of states should also be changed to make them one-worded like Karnatak, Maharashtra etc so that distortion by abbreviation may not be possible as has been like UP for Uttar Pradesh.
The government should also adopt a single name ‘Bharat’ for the country, abolishing the British given name as India, in tune with the unanimous resolution once passed by UP state-assembly.
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