London: A leading British daily will revert back to using Bombay instead of Mumbai when referring to the financial hub of India, to take stand against a "nastier strain of Hindu nationalism," its Indian-origin editor said on Wednesday.

"The whole point of Bombay is of an open, cosmopolitan port city, the Gateway of India that's open to the world. If you call it what Hindu nationalists want you to call it, you essentially do their work for them," Amol Rajan, the editor of 'The Independent', told BBC today.