Who gave the title ‘Mahatma’ to Gandhi?

A Bal Gangadhar Tilak
B Jawaharlal Nehru
C Rabindranath Tagore

Mahatma Gandhi, originally named Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, received the title ‘Mahatma’ (Great Soul’) from Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali poet, writer, philosopher, painter and Nobel Prize winner lyricist, in 1869.

The correct answer is Rabindranath Tagore.