Government of India, State Governments sometimes change name of cities, in order to appraise the demand from the local population or keeping in view religious sentiments or keeping in view the language being followed in the region. We are here with the list of all cities and towns where names have been changed since independence.
Places whose names have changed | |||
| Year | Place old Name | Place New Name | State |
| 1948 | Cawnpore | Kanpur | Uttar Pradesh |
| 1974 | Baroda | Vadodara | Gujarat |
| 1991 | Trivandram | Thiruvananthapuram | Kerala |
| 1996 | Cochin | Kochi | Kerala |
| 1996 | Madras | Chennai | Tamil Nadu |
| 2001 | Calcutta | Kolkata | West Bengal |
| 2006 | Pondicherry | Puducherry | Union Territory |
| 2014 | Gulbarga | Kalaburagi | Karnataka |
| 2014 | Bangalore | Bengaluru | Karnataka |
| 2014 | Mysore | Mysuru | Karnataka |
| 2014 | Hubli | Hubballi | Karnataka |
| 2014 | Chikmagalur | Chikkamagaluru | Karnataka |
| 2014 | Mangalore | Mangaluru | Karnataka |
| 2014 | Belgaum | Belagavi | Karnataka |
| 2014 | Bijapur | Vijapura | Karnataka |
| 2016 | Gurgaon | Gurugram | Haryana |
| 2018 | Allahabad | Praygraj | Uttar Pradesh |
| 2018 | Faizabad | Ayodhya | Uttar Pradesh |
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