This year, some Indians wanted to change the name of the country and called for the name of the country to be changed to "Bharat" or "Hindustan", on the grounds that the word India originated from foreign Chinese. On 3 June 2020, the Supreme Court of India rejected an application for a change in the name of India.
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In recent years, many Indian place names have been changed to new names with Hindu overtones.
In May 2019, Japan's then Foreign Minister Taro Kono (now Minister in Charge of Administrative Reform) said that foreign media outlets in japan wanted to write Japanese names in the form of "first last name." For example, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is generally written as "Yoshihide Suga", and the Japanese side hopes to correct it to "Suga Yoshihide" in the future.
The Japanese are beginning to make a name for themselves, and the Koreans are not lagging behind at all.
Back in November 2013, 22 South Korean lawmakers introduced a bill calling on the government to use Corea to spell South Korea's English name. Corea was originally the English name for Koryo. After the Japanese occupation, because of dissatisfaction with THE GAPAN ranking behind Corea, the letter C was changed to K. Both korea and corea indicate that their internationally recognized name is Koryo.
Seeing that South Korea and Japan are engaged in the "right name" movement, and the Philippines is not willing to be left behind, in February 2019, Philippine President Duterte proposed to change the name of the country "Philippines" to "Mahalika Republic" to maintain the "sense of national identity" of the Philippines.
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So why do Indians also want to "correct the name" and change the name of a good city? The religious factor is one aspect, and naturally, it is inseparable from the ruling party behind it.
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In fact, the name of Indian cities has long been changed.
As early as 1995, the English name of Mumbai, India's richest and largest city, was changed from Bombay to Mumbbai; in 2001, the standard English name of Kolkata, the third largest city in the Ganges Delta region of eastern India, was renamed Kolkata; in 2006, Bangalore, a city in southern India and known as the "Silicon Valley of Asia", was renamed Bangaluru.
Uttar Pradesh, India, is the most populous state in India and has historically been known by different names such as "Hindustan" and "Union Province". Until January 1950, the "United Province" was officially renamed "Uttar Pradesh", which has been used until now. Uttar Pradesh has changed its name, and the towns in Uttar Pradesh are also ready to move.
In early November 2018, The Chief Minister of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Joky Adianas, said he was prepared to rename the city of Allahabad in Uttar Prastabje to Praygraj (also known as Praayag Raj), while the name of the town of Faizabad in Faizabad District, Uttar Prastad State would be renamed "Ayodya".
Located at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, the city of Allahabad is an ancient holy city for Hindu pilgrimages.
Faizabad is also a Hindu holy city, there are really many holy cities and holy rivers in India, but they are famous for Varanasi and the Ganges. Why did Faizabad become a holy city? That's because there are a lot of stories of Hindu gods in this place, which can be said to be the place where Hindus want to go, in addition to this, there are many Hindu temples here, which can be said to be "hundreds of thousands".
"Ayodya" is the name of an ancient city in India, which in ancient times was the base of the "Adjunta Kingdom" and is also said to be the birthplace of the Hindu god Rama.
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Adianas said, "Ayodhya is our honor, pride and prestige. ”
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Both Adianas and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi belong to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which advocates Hindu nationalism, arguing that the "proper name" of the administrative region this time is to restore the old name of the city (its original name) and change the name of the place that the past Islamic rulers have changed to its original appearance.
In August 2018, the Mugarsaray Train Terminal in Uttar Pradesh, India, also changed the Islamic station name to the Hindu-style "Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction" at the urging of the Bharatiya People's Party.
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In fact, not only in Uttar Pradesh, but also in other parts of India, there are many BJP executive or parliamentary representatives who have pushed for the change of city names, airport names or road names to Hindu names.
For example, the local government of Gujarat, india's westernmost state, is considering changing the capital Ahmedabad to "Karnavati"; the parliamentarians of Telengana are also considering changing the capital hyderabad to "Bhagyanagar"; others have suggested renaming the southwestern state of Uttar Pradesh, Agra, where the Taj Mahal is located, to "Agravan" or "Agra". Agrawal", and so on.
Almost all of the names that are about to be changed, or that have been proposed to be replaced, are almost all related to the roots of Islam.
Originally spelled "Bombay", Mumbai was renamed "Mumbai" after 1995, and the first letter B of Mumbai's most famous film industry, Bollywood, was taken from Mumbai's old name "Bombay".
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In the past, India has also drastically changed the names of cities, streets or historical landmarks, but mainly after India's independence, the old names associated with the British colonial government were changed.
For example, the city of Kanpur in the southern part of Uttar Pradesh changed its English name from "Cawnpore" to "Kanpur", which is closer to the local pronunciation; the same is true for Jabalpur, which is called "Madhya Pradesh", which is called the "heart of India", and the English name has been changed from "Jubblepore" to "Jabalpur".
In addition, like Chinese more familiar "Mumbai", the change from "Bombay" to "Mumbai" in English Pinyin is also the result of the "decolonization" wave. In 1534, after the Portuguese captured the island where Mumbai was located, they named it "Bsia", which means "good harbor", which gradually evolved into "Bayim". In 1661, Portugal married England, and Bayim was given to England as a "dowry". Later, the British East India Company took over the area and built it into an important industrial and commercial city. The Mumbai aborigines are Marathi, who call the city Mumbai and the British spell Bombay in English. The Chinese translation of Mumbai's name is clearly based on the former.
Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu on the east coast of southern India, was formerly called Madras. In 1522, the Portuguese came and called it "Madre de Dius". In 1639, the English drove out the Portuguese, known as the Madras. In Tamil Nadu, Tamils are the majority. According to Tamil legend, madras, whose original name was "Kinnapatina", had to be restored to its old name and should not be used with colonial overtones. In 1996, Madras changed its name to Chennai.
Although the new and old names of Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata have not changed much in pronunciation, by modifying the phonetic method and saying goodbye to the language and symbols of the British colonial era, the subjectivity of Post-independence India can be highlighted.
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In the face of the renaming of the city of Allahabad to Praygraj, some historians have questioned this statement.
The city of Allah means "City of Allah", and it is true that the name was named in 1583 by the Islamic Mughal Emperor Akbar, but is the old place name of Allah Abad another question mark needed to be played?
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Farouque, former vice president of Allah Abad University, believes that the city of Allahabad has not been a big city in history.
Ahmed, a sociolinguistic at Kada University, argues that the Bharatiya Janata Party's view of the Mughal Empire as a colonial rule is not only historically wrong, but also splits current Indian society.
He mentioned that Islamists are also part of India, and that Indian place names should present India's inclusive, open and pluralistic culture, rather than being used to exclude or marginalize specific religions or ethnicities.
In April 2016, Gurgaon, a satellite city in India's capital, New Delhi, was "properly named" Gurugram.
An Indian scholar once said that Western countries are very keen to discover a wonderful future, while Indians are obsessed with discovering a "glorious" past.