Bapu is a Hindi name for father. In India The Great Freedom Fighter "Mahatma Mohan Chand Karam Chand Gandhi" is popularly known as Bapu
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Nethaji, Father of India
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Jaipur in Rajasthan, India is popularly known as the Pink City.
The Quit India movement was popularly known as purna swaraj
Rabindra nath tagore ji addressing him bapu ji,
Mahatma or Bapu.
Mahatma is a person who is held in the highest esteem for wisdom and saintliness and since Gandhi was a very saintly person and was very well respected, people referred to him as Mahatma Gandhi.
Mohandas KaramchandGandhi was called 'father of the nation' or 'bapu' during the non cooperation movement because during this time the national movement gained a large scale mass participaton and gandhiji was selected as the leader of this movement ( non-cooperation movement) therefore on an all india scale he was called 'THE FATHER OF THE NATION'.
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Mahatma - which means great soul. Somtimes, informally, bapu - meaning father. Mahatma Gandhi...born Mohandas K. Gandhi. ~ Eric Putkonen