ex-colonies often have this de-namification by the colonisers. At the same time, I think that's the least of the problems in the life of the average "Bombayite" in the street (literally).

I was between two minds whether to post this as per "politically motivated 'problems'" etc., which is generally sound advice. But hey, some politics hidden in "Re^5" is also OK for me :)

Edit: it *may not* have been a colonial hand what gave the name Bombay:

The French traveller Louis Rousselet who visited in 1863 and 1868 tells us in his book L’Inde des Rajahs (pub. 1877 in Paris): "Etymologists have wrongly derived this name from the Portuguese Bôa Bahia, or (French: "bonne bai", English: "good bay"), not knowing that the tutelar goddess of this island has been, from remote antiquity, Bomba, or Mamba Dévi, and that she still..., possesses a temple". (from wikipedia)