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Beijing Duck, Mumbai Gin, and Other Name Changes
"Off we go to Mumbai, which has had that name since the Middle Ages in honor of the city’s patron goddess, Mumbadevi." That was the name of a fishing village within the cluster of islands, No city existed in those days.Besides a lot of old timers prefer the name Bombay to Mumbai. You can credit divisive regional politics for that. "In fact, the locals never stopped calling the city Mumbai, no matter who was marching through" Only if you consider Maharashtrians and Gujaratis to be locals. For other Indians who owe allegiance to the city before it became part of a linguistic state (Maharashtra), it's always been Bombay.— June 27, 2012 2:12 p.m.