08-01-2005, 10:29 PM
Historians seek to give Dehli back its name
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Mr Misra said that even Dehli was a corrupted word. The pre-Mughal name was Dilli, which was derived from <b>Dhillika</b>, a Rajput name for the area which dates back to the 8th century.
Plans to rename Dehli might seem slightly far-fetched, not to mention expensive, but precedents abound. India has renamed three major cities in the past decade
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Mr Misra said that even Dehli was a corrupted word. The pre-Mughal name was Dilli, which was derived from <b>Dhillika</b>, a Rajput name for the area which dates back to the 8th century.
Plans to rename Dehli might seem slightly far-fetched, not to mention expensive, but precedents abound. India has renamed three major cities in the past decade
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