Question

Who had given the title of “Mahatma” to Gandhi Ji?
(A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(B) Gopal Krishna Gokhle
(C) Motilal Nehru
(D) Rabindra Nath Tagore

Answer 1

Hint: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, also recognized as Mahatma Gandhi, was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial pro-independence, and political ethician, who engaged nonviolent battle to precedent the positive movement for India's independence from British statute and in turn stimulated crusades for civil rights and freedom athwart the world.

Complete step-by-step answer:
Rabindranath Tagore, born Rabindranath Thakur, was a Bengali poet, author, creator, truth-seeker and painter. He reformed Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "intensely penetrating, immaculate and beautiful section" of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European as well as the first versifier to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Rendering to some authors, Rabindranath Tagore is said to have used this designation for Gandhi on March 6, 1915. Several argue that he was named Mahatma by the inhabitants of Gurukul Kangri in April 1915, and he, in turn, named the organizer Munshiram a Mahatma. Nevertheless, a paper revering him with the title "Mahatma" on January 21, 1915, in Jetpur, Gujarat, by Nautamlal Bhagvanji Mehta is conserved at the National Gandhi Museum in New Delhi, India. This paper persists the initial notation of the title "Mahatma" being bequeathed upon Gandhi.

Thus, option (D) is correct.

Note: The word, used in a practical sense, was propagated in theosophical literature in the late 19th century, when Helena Blavatsky, one of the initiators of the Theosophical Society, declared that her educators were mavens (or Mahatmas) who exist in Asia. Rendering to the Theosophical education, the Mahatmas are not incorporeal beings, but extremely advanced people engaged in supervision of the psychic development of people and the advance of societies. Blavatsky was the first person in modern times to declare contact with these Mavens, particularly the "Masters" Koot Hoomi and Morya.