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The native and most-spoken language of Mumbai is Marathi. How did the city become the centre of Hindi-language cinema (also known as "Bollywood", after the city's former name of Bombay), ahead of the Hindi-speaking metropolis of Delhi?

by /u/benjaneson in /r/AskHistorians

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