Caste-based area names to be changed across Indian state to 'increase unity'

Millions of people in Maharashtra to have neighbourhoods renamed but critics say plan means little without behavioural change

The names of neighbourhoods in the Indian state of Maharashtra based on the caste of people who have traditionally lived there are to be be changed, to reflect the country's evolving attitudes.

In the same way Indian surnames reveal the caste to which a person belongs, neighbourhoods have acquired names based on the caste of the community that predominates.