List of Indian Nicknames

• Modern Manu/Adhunik Manu: Dr. B R Ambedhkar
• Indian Bismarck: Sardar Patel
• Socrates of Maharashtra: Gopalakrishnan Gokhale
• Prince of Beggars: Madan Mohan Malavya
• Prophet of Cultural Renaissance in Western India: Mahadeva Govinda Ranade
• Punjab Kesari: Lalla Lajpat Rai
• Grand old Lady of Indian Nationalism: Annie Basant
• Man of the masses: K.Kamaraj
• Grand Old Man of Indian Journalism: Tushar Kanti Ghosh
• Andhra Kesari:  T.Prakasam
• Anna:  C.N. Annadurai
• Banga bandhu: Sheikh Mujibut Rahman
• Bengal Kesari: Ashutosh Mukherji
• Bengali Tiger: Lala Lajpat Rai
• Bihar Kesari: Dr.Srikrishna Singh
• Bird man of India: Salim Ali
• Bihar Vibhuti: Dr.Anugrah Narayan Singh
• Deshpriya Yatindra: Mohan Sengupta
• Father of Gujarat: Ravi Shankar Maharaj
• Frontier Gandhi: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan 
• Badshah Khan: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
• Grand Old man of India: Dadabhai Naoroji
• Grandfather of Indian Films: Dhundiraj Govind Phalke
• Guruji: M.S. Golvalkar
• Haryana Hurricane: Kapil Dev
• Indian Einstein: Nagarjuna
• Jana Nayak: Karpuri Thakur
• King Maker of Indian History: Sayyed Bandhu
• Kuvempu: K.V. Puttappa
• Little Master: Sunil Gavaskar
• Lokmanya: Bal Gangadhar Tilak
• Loknayak: Jayaprakash Narayan
• Machiavelli of India: Chanakya
• Magician of Hockey: Dhyanchand
• Mahamana: Pt. Madan Mohan Malaviya
• Nightingale of India: Sarojini Naidu
• Vishwa Kavi: Rabindranath Tagore
• Mysore Tiger: Tippu Sultan
• Young Turk: Chandra Shekhar
• Sparrow: Major General Rajinder Singh
• Tau: Chaudhury Devi Lal
• Udanpari: P.T. Usha
• Sahid-e-Azam: Bhagat Singh
• Prince of Martyrs: Bhagat Singh
• Patriot of Patriots: Subhash Chandra Bose
• Neta Ji: Subhash Chandra Bose
• Sher-e-Kashmir: Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah
• Lion of Kashmir: Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah

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Sobriquets/Nicknames of Places in the world

Here is a list of places with their Nicknames/Sobriquets.

Sobriquet/Nickname	Place
Powder keg of Europe	Balkans
Dark Continent	Africa
Playground of Europe	Switzerland
Land of White elephants	Thailand
Land of Thousand lakes	Finland
Land of Rivers	Punjab, India
Quaker City	Philadelphia
Pearl of the Antilles	Cuba
Never Never Land	Prairies of North Australia
Land of Rising Sun	Japan
Land of Midnight Sun	Norway
Land of Golden fleece	Australia
Herring Pond	Atlantic Ocean
Key of the Mediterranean	Gibraltar
Emerald island	Ireland
Garden of England	Kent
City of Sky Scrapers	New York, USA
City of the Golden gate	San Francisco,USA
City of Golden temple	Amritsar, India
Cockpit of Europe	Belgium
Granite City	Aberdeen, Scotland
Great White Way	Broadway, New York(USA)
Bengal's sorrow	River Damodar, India
City of Dreaming Spires	Oxford, UK

Nickname	Place
Forbidden City	Lhasa, Tibet
Gift of Nile	Egypt
Queen of the Adriatic	Venice, Italy
Gate of Tears	Bab-el-mandab
Gateway of India	Mumbai
Queen of the Arabian Sea	Kochi, India
Land of Morning Calm	Korea
Land of Maple	Canada
Garden of India	Bengaluru
The White Rus	Belarus
The Sunny Side of the Alps	Slovenia
Land of the Golden Pagoda	Myanmar
Land of the Kangaroo	Australia
Land of cakes	Scotland
Island of Pearls	Bahrain
Island of Cloves	Zanzibar
Holy Land	Palestine
Empire city	New York, USA
City of Palaces	Kolkata, India
City of Magnificent distances	Washington D.C, USA
Britain of the South	New Zealand
Blue Mountains	Nilgiri hills, India
Land of Lilies	Canada
Land of humming bird	Trinidad

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