- ABDUL
GAFFAR KHAN- Badshah Khan; Frontier Gandhi.
- Bacha Khan was nicknamed the “Frontier Gandhi” in British India by his close associate Amir Chand Bombwal.
- He was a Pashtun independence activist who worked to end the rule of the British Raj in India.
- BAL
GANGADHAR TILAK – Lokmanya
- “Lokmanya” means “accepted by the people (as their leader). “
- Tilak was the first leader of the Indian Independence Movement. The British colonial authorities called him “The father of the Indian unrest.”
- CF
ANDREWS- Deenabandhu
- A Christian missionary, educator and social reformer in India.
- For his contributions to the Indian Independence Movement Gandhi and his students at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, named him Deenabandhu, or “Friend of the Poor”.
- CN
ANNADURAI- Anna
- An Indian politician who served as 1st Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for 20 days in 1969 and fifth and last Chief Minister of Madras State from 1967 until 1969 when the name of the state of Madras was changed to Tamil Nadu. He was the first member of a Dravidian party to hold either post.
- CHITTARANJAN
DAS- Deshabandhu-Friend of the Nation
- Chittaranjan Das was a leading Bengali nationalist politician, a prominent lawyer, an activist of the Indian independence movement and founder-leader of the Swaraj party.
- C
RAJAGOPALACHARI- Rajaji
- An Indian politician, independence activist, lawyer, writer, historian and statesman.
- Rajagopalachari was the last Governor-General of India.
- DADABHAI
NAOROJI- Grand Old Man of India & Unofficial Ambassador of India
- He was an Indian Parsi scholar, trader and politician.
- His book Poverty and Un-British Rule in India brought attention to the draining of India’s wealth into Britain.
- JAWAHARLAL
NEHRU- Chacha, Panditji
- The first Prime Minister of India and eminent leader of the Indian independence movement.
- He was also known as Pandit Nehru due to his roots with the Kashmiri Pandit community.
- Childrens calls him Chacha Nehru.
- JAYAPRAKASH
NARAYAN- Loknayak- The People’s Leader
- He is also known as the “Hero of Quit India Movement“.
- He was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna also Magsaysay award for Public Service in 1965.
- LAL
BAHADUR SHASTRI- Man of Peace
- Second Prime Minister of India
- Deeply impressed and influenced by Gandhi, he joined the Indian independence movement in the 1920s.
- LALA
LAJPAT RAI- Punjab Kesari; Lion of Punjab(Sher-i-Punjab)
- He was an Indian freedom fighter, played a pivotal role in the Indian Independence movement.
- He was one of the three Lal Bal Pal triumvirate.
- MK
GANDHI- Bapu; Mahatma, Father of the Nation
- Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore bestowed the title on Gandhi in 1915.
- Title ‘Father Of Nation’ was given by Nethaji Subash Chandra Bose.
- MS
GOLWALKAR- Shri Guruji
- Second Sarsanghchalak (or, “Chief”) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
- He has been widely noted to be the most prominent ideologue of Hindutva.
- One of the early leaders for the RSS group.
- MADAN
MOHAN MALAVIYA- Mahamana
- Title was conferred to him by Mahatma Gandhi.
- An Indian scholar, educational reformer and politician notable for his role in the Indian independence movement, as the four times president of Indian National Congress.
- RABINDRANATH
TAGORE- Gurudev, Kabiguru, & Biswakabi
- Bengali poet, writer, music composer, and painter from the India.
- First non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India’s Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh’s Amar Shonar Bangla.
- RAJINDER
SINGH- Sparrow
- He was an Indian Army officer and a two time member of the Lok Sabha.
- During the Pakistan aggression in 1965 Maj Gen Rajinder Singh Sparrow was General Officer Commanding I Armoured Division.
- SAROJINI
NAIDU- Nightingale of India
- Was an Indian political activist and poet.
- She was an important figure in India’s struggle for independence from colonial rule.
- First woman to hold the office of Governor in the Dominion of India.
- SHEIKH
MOHAMMAD ABDULLAH- Lion of Kashmir (Sher-i-Kashmir)
- He was a founding leader of the All Jammu & Kashmir Muslim Conference.
- 1st elected Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir after its accession to India.
- He agitated against the rule of the Maharaja Hari Singh and urged self-rule for Kashmir.
- SHEIKH
MUJIBUR RAHMAN- Bangabandhu- Friend of Bengal
- Bangladeshi politician and statesman.
- He is called the “Father of the Nation” in Bangladesh.
- He served as the first President of Bangladesh and later as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 17 April 1971.
- SUBHASH
CHANDRA BOSE- Netaji
- Indian revolutionary prominent in the independence movement.
- Led an Indian national force from abroad against the Western powers during World War II.
- Known in particular for his militant approach to independence and for his push for socialist policies.
- TANGUTURI
PRAKASAM- Andhra Kesari-Lion of Andhra
- An Indian politician and freedom fighter, chief minister of the Madras Presidency.
- The first chief minister of the new Andhra state, created by the partition of Madras State along linguistic lines.
- VALLABHBHAI
PATEL- Iron Man of India, Bismarck of India
- First Deputy Prime Minister of India.
- Senior leader of the Indian National Congress and a founding father of the Republic of India.
| Nickname | Personality |
| Acharya | Vinoba Bhave |
| Adi Kavi | Valmiki |
| Ajatshatru | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| Akbar of Kashmir | Jainul Abdin |
| Andhra Kesari | T Prakasam |
| Anna | C N Annadurai |
| Babuji | Javjeevan Ram |
| Badshah Khan / Frontier Gandhi | Abdul Ghaffar Khan |
| Bangabandhu | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman |
| Bapu | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
| Bengal Kesari | Ashutosh Mukherji |
| Bengal Tiger | Bipin Chandrapal & Saurav Ganguli |
| Bihar Kesri | Dr. Srikrishna Singh |
| Bihar Vibhuti | Dr. Anurag Narayan Singh |
| Bismark of India | Vallabhai Patel |
| Biswa Kavi | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Buddha | Siddhartha Gautama |
| C R | C Rajagopalachari |
| Chacha | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Deenabandhu | C F Andrews |
| Desabandhu | C R Das |
| Desh Ratna | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| Deshbandhu | Chitta Ranjan Das |
| Deshpriya | Yatindra Mohan Sengupta |
| Father of Gujrat | Ravi Sankar Maharaj |
| Father of Nation (India) | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
| Flying Sikh | Milkha Singh |
| Frontier Gandhi | Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan |
| Gandhiji | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
| Grand Old Man of India | Dadabhai Naoroji |
| Grandfather of Indian Films | Dhundiraj Govind Fhalke |
| Gurudev | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Guruji | M S Gohlwalkar |
| Haryana Hurricane | Kapil Dev |
| Hockey Wizard | Dhyan Chand |
| Indian Machiavelli | Chanakya |
| Iron Lady of India | Indira Gandhi |
| Iron Man | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel |
| J P | Jayaprakash Narayan |
| Jana Nayak | Karpuri Thakur |
| Kaviguru | Rabindranath Tagore |
| King Maker of Indian History | Sayyed Bandhu |
| Kuvempu | K.V.Puttappa |
| Lal, Bal, Pal | Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Ganghadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal |
| Light of Asia | Sreebuddha |
| Lion of Kashmir | Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah |
| Lion of Maratha | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
| Little Master | Sunil Gavaskar |
| Lokmanya | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
| Loknayak | Jayaprakash Narayan |
| Machiavelli of India | Chanakya |
| Magician of Hockey | Dhyanchand |
| Mahamana | Madan Mohan Malaviya |
| Man of Destiny | Napolean Bonaparte |
| Man of Iron | Vallabhai Patel |
| Man of Peace | Lal Bahadur Shastri |
| Morning Star of India Renaissance | Raja Ram Mohan Roy |
| Napolean of India | Samudragupta |
| Netaji | Subhash Chandra Bose |
| Netaji | Subhash Chandra Bose |
| Nightingale of India | Sarojini Naidu |
| Panditji | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Panjab Kesari | Lala Lajpat Rai |
| Payyoli Express | P. T. Usha |
| Prince of Kolkata | Saurav Ganguly |
| Priyadarshini | Indira Gandhi |
| Punjab Kesari | Lala Lajpat Rai |
| Rajaji | C Rajagopalachari |
| Rajarshee | Purushottam Das tandon |
| Sahid-e-Azam | Bhagat Singh |
| Saint of Sabarmati | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
| Saint of the Gutters | mother Teresa |
| Shakespere of India | Kalidasa |
| Sher-e-Kashmir | Sheikh Abdullah |
| Sparrow | Major General Rajinder Singh |
| Strong Man of India | Vallabhai Patel |
| Swar Kokila | Lata Mangeshkar |
| Tau | Chaudhury Devi Lal |
| The Little Master | Sachin Tendulkar |
| Tiger of Mysore | Tipu Sultan |
| Tota-e-Hind | Amir Khushro |
| Udanpari | P.T.Usha |
| Young Turk | Chandra Sekhar |
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