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chennai's original name was chennaipatinam. the brits changed it to madras. so of late ppl wanted the brit name out. and chennaipatinam was a ctually a harbor. so the city came to be called chennai
wfm100
The Indian subcontentent has had many name changes in the past 50 years, i.e. Bombay, Ceylon, Burma, etc. The changes are usually an effort to move away from the English name given when the area was ruled by the British to a local language name.
While it may be understandable, it sure makes life more complicated!
vino
Chennai is the name from Chennaipatinam which formerly named.
umangu
They changed it back to the original name, Chennai because the people of the sate voted to do so.
Madras was the British name
ucd_grad_2005
because of that ugly plaid fabric associated with the former name!
maya
chennai's original name was chennaipatinam. the latter it has been changed it to madras...so governmenthas again changed to chennai...
kool_kitty_rulz
cuz ppl r so totally job less?!
rusipatel125
Beucase of the U.K cause they cant say the name Madras so they called Chennai
prachi
ha....
i think so because of the rulers and the fast growing modern india made the name look odd
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