Word: mahatmas
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...relation to Mahatma) Bombay, India...
...Delhi a hartal (passive strike) was called after the arrest of 71 Nationalists who were picketing a liquor shop, carrying out the Mahatma's campaign against foreign cloth and spirits...
...consider Mr. Gandhi a saint and strongly object to your use of "St. Gandhi." If you must dignify the creature, call him "Mahatma Gandhi" or use the literal translation of mahatma...
Atman in Hindustani means soul. With literal accuracy TIME could speak of Mahatma or "Great Soul" Gandhi. But in English such terms produce no clear cut impression. TIME, eschewing the nebulous, uses "St." for brevity and precision, as the shortest way of indicating that millions of Hindus revere the Mahatma exactly as Christians would a 1930 Saint...
...troubles himself little with archaeological preciseness--the conflict between Thomas a Becket and King Henry II, from the time when the King himself disturbed the serene sway of his chancellor by creating him Archbishop of Canterbury, through the conversion of Becket into a meek exponent of passive resistance, a Mahatma-like figure who led his Saxon beggar-followers with the sign of the Cross. At length he so maddened the King that four Norman nobles took the royal wrath as a pretext for slaughtering this enemy of their oligarchy. The narrator is one John, the Crossbowman, Swabian body-servant...