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"textContent": "In recent decades, India has seen a wave of renaming of states and cities to reflect pre-colonial identities, from Bombay becoming Mumbai and Orissa being renamed Odisha, writes Alisha Rahaman Sarkar",
"title": "How one state’s name change sparked calls for a similar move across India to reclaim pre-colonial legacy",
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