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It was contempt. It was basically, "fuck you we don't care how it's been pronounced so far, we can't say it that way, we're not even going to bother trying, so here, this is how you will say and spell it from now on".
Mickie_Cricket-
The empire was driven by greed and commercial interest at the expense of locals if necessary.
Often they would nice up a few locals to maintain power.. and would mostly maintain local customs, this would keep them in control... This system was very successful. But They did promote missionaries tbh.
The political system was in English
And names where adjusted to suit.
The reality is that many people benefited from the British at the expense of the masses and that is what maintained power.
Names where relatively minor issue..considering famines and massacres.
wildwest
The English did not spell there names out contempt but to make the names easier to spell and pronounce in English.
The changes are just an attempt to correct local prouncation... if it's was real patriotism they would disregard the 3nglish language as a whole... as said this is just a bout of political point scoring to hide the often inept politicians to keep uneducated locals happy until the next election.