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BANGALORE (Reuters) - Bangalore, long known as India's Garden City and now a global technology hub, is set to change its name to Bengalooru, reverting to a centuries-old title that means "the town of boiled beans".
The city of 6.5 million, capital of southern Karnataka state, is the latest to drop a colonial name British rulers found easier to pronounce than the original.
The financial centre of Bombay has become Mumbai, the southern city of Madras is now Chennai, and Calcutta is Kolkata.
"The decision has been taken. Most likely it will be from November, 2006," a spokesman for state Chief Minister Dharam Singh said on Monday.
Bangalore houses more than 1,500 technology and office service companies that account for a third of India's $17-billion (9.6 billion pounds) software and office service industry.
The original name of Bangalore is said to be derived from "benda kalooru", or boiled beans, because a king exhausted during a forest hunt in the 14th century was fed boiled beans by a villager where the city now stands.http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArt...RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-INDIA-BANGALORE.XML
The city of 6.5 million, capital of southern Karnataka state, is the latest to drop a colonial name British rulers found easier to pronounce than the original.
The financial centre of Bombay has become Mumbai, the southern city of Madras is now Chennai, and Calcutta is Kolkata.
"The decision has been taken. Most likely it will be from November, 2006," a spokesman for state Chief Minister Dharam Singh said on Monday.
Bangalore houses more than 1,500 technology and office service companies that account for a third of India's $17-billion (9.6 billion pounds) software and office service industry.
The original name of Bangalore is said to be derived from "benda kalooru", or boiled beans, because a king exhausted during a forest hunt in the 14th century was fed boiled beans by a villager where the city now stands.http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArt...RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-INDIA-BANGALORE.XML
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