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The official name change has led to a debate with some saying the move may have an impact on the city's global reputation, BBC Hindi's Imran Qureshi says.

Those in favour of Bengaluru say people will soon get used to it, he adds. Bangalore and India's digital future. India's Bangalore in name change.

City plan for 'boiled beans town'. The old city developed in the dominions of the Maharaja of Mysore and was made capital of the Princely State of Mysore, which existed as a nominally sovereign entity of the British Raj. In , the British shifted their cantonment to Bangalore, outside the old city, and a town grew up around it, which was governed as part of British India. The two urban settlements of Bangalore — city and cantonment — which had developed as independent entities merged into a single urban centre in Foreign Trade.

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In tandem, 11 other cities across Karnataka were also rechristened by the state government, casting away the anglicised names. The new names have come into force after the state government issued a special gazette notification to effect the changes, giving them the distinct local flavour.

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