It is said that the "Untouchables" (out-of-caste, or outcast) make up over one quarter of the Hindu population and do most of the manual work "including drudgery of the crudest form".
The city's name was changed from Bombay to Mumbai in the mid-1990s. According to Fodor's Travel, Shiv Sena, the Hindu nationalist party in power at the time, decided the city's name should be one that was used in local languages. The name derives from Mumba Devi, the patron Hindu goddess of the island's original residents, the Koli fishermen.