The following is the list of honorary titles given to various Indian leaders during Indian independence struggle.
Honorary title Meaning StatesmanPhotosAzad "Free" (Urdu) Figuratively = "The Freed Soul" Chandra Shekhar Tiwari• Babasaheb
• Mooknayak "The Respected Father" (Marathi). "Baba" = "father" and "Saheb" = "sir" "Captain of the Voiceless" (Marathi) (Hindi)."Mook" = "Voiceless" and "Nayak" = "Captain". Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar• Bacha Khan • Badshah Khan
• Fakhr-e-Afghan
• Sarhadi Gandhi"Bacha Khan" = "King of Chiefs" "Badshah Khan" = Master King of Kings
"Pride of Afghans" (Urdu)
"Fakhr" = "Pride" and "Afghan" = "Afghan"
"Frontier Gandhi" (Hindi)
"Sarhad" = "Frontier" (North-West Frontier Province) and "Gandhi" = "Gandhi"Abdul Ghaffar KhanBihar Kesari"Lion of Bihar" (Hindi/Sanskrit) "Bihar" = "Bihar" and "Kesari" = "Lion"Shri Krishna Sinha Bihar Vibhuti "Sacred Ash of Bihar" (Hindi)."Bihar" = "Bihar" and "Vibhuti" = "Sacred Ash" Anugrah Narayan SinhaDeenabandhu"Friend of the Poor" (Bengali)."Deen" = "Poor" and "Bandhu" = "Friend".Charles Freer Andrews Deshabandhu "Friend of Country" (Bengali)."Desh" = "Country" and "Bandhu" = "Friend". Chittaranjan Das• Deshanayak • Netaji "Captain of the Country" (Bengali)."Desh" = "Country" and "Nayak" = "Captain".
"Respected Leader" (Hindi)."Neta" = "Leader" and "Ji" = an honorary suffix. Subhash Chandra Bose Deshapriya "Beloved of the country" (Bengali)."Desh" = "Country" and "Priya" = "Beloved". Jatindra Mohan SenguptaDesh Ratna "Jewel of the Country" (Hindi)."Desh" = "country" and "Ratna" = "jewel" Rajendra Prasad• Gurudev • Kobiguru
• Biswakobi
• The Bard of Bengal "Divine Teacher" (Bengali) (Hindi)."Guru" = "Teacher" and "Deva" = "divine". Rabindranath Tagore Lokmanya "Revered by the People" (Marathi)."Lok" = "People" and "Manya" = "Revered". Bal Gangadhar Tilak Loknayak "Captain of the People" (Hindi)."Lok" = "People" and "Nayak" = "Captain". Jayaprakash Narayan Mahamana "Great Heart" (Hindi)."Mahan" = "great" and "Mana" = "thought/heart". Madan Mohan Malaviya Mahatma "Great Soul" (Sanskrit)."Maha" = "Great" and "Atma" = "Soul". Mohandas Karamchand GandhiMahatma"Great Soul" (Sanskrit)."Maha" = "Great" and "Atma" = "soul".Jyotirao Govindrao Phule Maulana "Guardian" (Arabic). Abul Kalam Azad Chacha "Paternal Uncle" (Hindi) Jawaharlal NehruPunjab Kesari"Lion of Punjab" (Hindi) "Punjab" = "Punjab" and "Kesari" = "Lion"Lala Lajpat Rai Sardar "Commander" (Persian)."Sar" = "Head" and "dar" = "Holder". Vallabhbhai Patel Shaheed-e-Azam "Greatest Martyr" (Urdu)."Shaheed" = "Martyr" and "Azam" = "Greatest". Bhagat SinghSwadeshi Tamil Naavik"Kappal Ootiya Tamilan" (Tamil) "Kappal" = "Tamil" and "Naavik" = "Captain"V O Chidambaram Pillai Swantanryaveer or Veer "Brave Freedom Fighter" (Marathi). "Swantanrya" = "Freedom" and "Veer" = "Brave" Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
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