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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Aidan Work, post: 202618, member: 1824&quot;]Ian &amp; Biju,when the British first came to India in the late 17th. Century,they had to find some way of translating from the native Indian languages (of which there are hundreds,I must add!).The English administrators &amp; teachers were obviously unused to hearing the Indian accents mistranscribed things like people&#039;s names &amp; placenames down.For example,when they heard the name &#039;Mumbai&#039;,it sounded to the English like &#039;Bombay&#039;.The some thing occurred in the Kolkata/Calcutta situation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even now,some Indians still refer to Mumbai as &#039;Bombay&#039;,Chennai as &#039;Madras&#039;,&amp; Kolkata as &#039;Calcutta&#039;,especially when speaking in English.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only numismatic items that were issued after 1850 in French India were the banknotes denominated in Roupies.Some of them are also inscribed in English as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>Aidan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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