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as exercise in anachronism; move the parent article. The official change of name was in the 1990s; during most of the independence of India, this city was called Bombay. It would be far more useful to include the date (and perhaps the unfortunate circumstances) and to cite the continuing local usage.
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of which it was "Bombay". I do see the argument for thinking of the article, since it barely touches the present, as looking back from the present, but I don't feel it's sufficiently strong…
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City has been Mumbai for just about 15 years, was Bombay for over 200 hence makes sense to keep it as Bombay for now.
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Knowledge guidelines are that when considering a place over a period of time, we use the current name. Hence we have
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for most of the period since Indian independence, I think it would be generally anachronistic to use
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per PMAnderson above; since the name change has been recent and the city was known by the name
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We should use the correct government name in the present day for a living city like Mumbai.
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The inclusion of information following the 1960's and before the twentieth century.
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