General Knowledge - Indian Politics - Discussion

Lakshadweep formerly known as the Laccadive, Minicoy, and Amindivi Islands is a group of islands in the Laccadive Sea, 200 to 440 kilometres (120 to 270 mi) off the South Western coast of India. The archipelago is a Union Territory and is governed by the Union Government of India. They were also known as Laccadive Islands, although geographically this is only the name of the central subgroup of the group. Lakshadweep comes from "Lakshadweepa", which means "one hundred thousand islands" in Sanskrit as well as many Indian languages like Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu and others. The region forms a single Indian district with ten sub divisions. Kavaratti serves as the capital of the Union Territory and the region comes under the jurisdiction of Kerala High Court. The islands are the northernmost of the Lakshadweep-Maldives-Chagos group of islands, which are the tops of a vast undersea mountain range, the Chagos-Laccadive Ridge.

The name change to Lakshadweep was made to better reflect the local culture and geography. The term “Lakshadweep” means “one hundred thousand islands” in Sanskrit, which is more representative of the archipelago’s identity.

The change was part of a broader effort to standardize place names across India to align with local languages and cultural heritage.

Why the name changes of various places and cities? Money which would have been spent on the changing of places cost crores of Rs. whereas that money can be directly use for the development, so please tell me clearly why name of the places changes occur in-spite we know that money can be utilized on a better way.

Name changed because the island that form were excluded before after changing the name they were in contraction of development and notification that is the reason that we are discussing now about 3 of them other wise no reason to take care or to ensure the condition of these three.

As Bombay is english name it is changed to Mumbai. Madras to chennai, delhi to New DELHI, calcutta to KOLKATA these are changed because of that regional language easy to speak and also to remove british names. Thats why laccadive to lakshdwip.

They were known as Laccadive Islands, although geographically this is only the name of the central subgroup of the group. After INDIA's independence the group was named as lakshadweep (sanskrit word which means thousand).

Article 3 of the constitution empowers states like centre and state governments to make changes in names and renames of states and their boundaries as well as create a new state are dysfunctional current state.

The name was changed because lakshwadeep means one thousand of islands. Since, the three were very large, the parliament found this name extremely suitable and thus named it lakshwadeep.

But why the name were changed they can be left as they were before what was the need to change the name.

Annya, is this because the previous name (Laccadive) doesn't have any meaning, while lakshadweep has.