List Of City Name Changes In India 2023 (Complete List)

Last Updated: 1 August 2023

In India, the renaming of cities started way back in 1947 following the end of British rule in India. Many Indian states’ names were changed during British Raj in India.

After the Independence of India, People from several states proposed changing the names as per their local language and various other factors.

Many changes were controversial, and not all proposed changes were implemented. The proposed name had to be approved by the central government in New Delhi to officially rename it.

We present to you a complete list of city name changes in India that had been renamed from 1947 till date.

List Of City Name Changes In India

No.	Past Name	Present Name	Year
1	Alleppey	Alappuzha	1990
2	Allahabad	Prayagraj	2018
3	Amin	Abhimanyupur	2019
4	Aurangabad	Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar	2023
5	Banaras	Varanasi	1922
6	Bangalore	Bengaluru	2006
7	Baroda	Vadodara	1974
8	Belgaum	Belagavi	2014
9	Bellary	Ballari	2014
10	Bijapur	Vijayapura	1956
11	Calicut	Kozhikode	~
12	Cannanore	Kannur	1957
13	Chirayinkil	Chirayinkeezhu	2012
14	Chikmagalur	Chikkamagaluru	2014
15	Cochin	Kochi	1996
16	Cuddapah	Kadapa	2005
17	Fort William ↓ Calcutta	Kolkata	2001
18	Gauhati	Guwahati	1983
19	Gulbarga	Kalburgi	2014
20	Gurgaon	Gurugram	2016
21	Hospet	Hosapete	2014
22	Hubli	Hubballi	2014
23	Indravati ↓ Umravti	Amravati	1097
24	Jajesmow	Jajmau	1948
25	Jubbulpore	Jabalpur	1947
26	Jeypore	Jaipur	1727
27	Kanhiyapur ↓ Cawnpore	Kanpur	1948
28	Karnavati	Ahmedabad	1411
29	Kattachakonam	Kesavadasapuram	1949
30	Lakshmanpuri ↓ Lakhanpur ↓ Lakhnau	Lucknow	1528
31	Madras	Chennai	1996
32	Mangalore	Mangaluru	2014
33	Mapuça	Mapusa	1946
34	Mumba ↓ Boa Baia ↓ Bombay	Mumbai	1995
35	Mustafabad	Saraswati Nagar	2016
36	Mysore	Mysuru	2014
37	New Bombay	Navi Mumbai	1995
38	New Raipur	Atal Nagar	2018
39	Ootacamund	Udhagamandalam	1972
40	Orissa	Odisha	2011
41	Osmanabad	Dharashiv	2023
42	Palghat	Palakkad	1866
43	Panjim	Panaji	1961
44	Pataliputra	Patna	490 BCE
45	Pondicherry	Puducherry	2006
46	Poona	Pune	1978
47	Qila Rai Pithora ↓ Siri ↓ Tughluqabad ↓ Jahanpanah ↓ Kotla Firoz Shah ↓ Purana Qila ↓ Indraprastha ↓ Shahjahanabad	Delhi	1648
48	Quilon	Kollam	1949
49	Rajahmundry	Rajamahendravaram	2015
50	Ratnapur	Latur	1905
51	Saket	Ayodhya	1969
52	Shimoga	Shivamogga	2014
53	Tanjore	Thanjavur	1950
54	Thirusirappalli ↓ Trichinopoly ↓ Trichy	Tiruchirappalli	1971
55	Thrishivaperur ↓ Trichur	Thrissur	1949
56	Trivandrum	Thiruvananthapuram	1991
57	Tumkur	Tumakuru	2014
58	Vizagapatam	Visakhapatnam	1979
59	Wheeler Island	Abdul Kalam Island	2015

List Of State Name Changes In India

No.	Past Name	Present Name	Year
1	Andhra State	Andhra Pradesh	1956
2	Madhya Bharat	Madhya Pradesh	1959
3	Madras State	Tamil Nadu	1969
4	Mysore State	Karnataka	1973
5	Orissa	Odisha	2011
6	Tipperah	Tripura	1949
7	Travancore-Cochin	Kerala	1956
8	United Provinces	Uttar Pradesh	1950
9	Uttaranchal	Uttarakhand	2007