Rare photos of Mahatma Gandhi The honorific Mahātmā — applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa —is now used worldwide. In India, he is also called Bapu ji (Gujarati: endearment for father, papa) and Gandhi ji. He is unofficially called the Father of the Nation. Previous Next Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 2017-10-09 spiel