List of nicknames of prime ministers of India

Full name: Jawaharlal Nehru

• Pandit, for his Kashmiri Pandit ancestry.[1]
• Chacha (Hindi: uncle), as he was better known among children.[1]

Full name: Lal Bahadur Shastri

• Man of Peace[2][3][4]
• Nanhe (Hindi: little) was his childhood nickname.[5]

Full name: Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi

• Priyadarshini (Sanskrit: dear to the sight)[6][7]
• Mother India, a biographical book written on her by Pranay Gupte.[8]
• Iron Lady of India, to iterate her gutsy matriarchal charisma.[9]
• Durga, a nickname that is rumoured to be given to her by Atal Bihari Vajpayee after she won the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. Although Vajpayee strongly denied having called her so.[10]

Full name: Atal Bihari Vajpayee

• Ajatashatru (Sanskrit: having no enemy), for having a perpetual good-man aura and no enemies even from the opposing sides.[11][12][13]
• Bhishma Pitamaha, a nickname that is given to him by former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.[14]

Full name: Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda

• Mannina Maga (Kannada: son of the soil), for iterating that he is down-to-earth and cares for the poor.[15]
• Dodda Gowdaru (Kannada: Senior Gowda), for disambiguating him from his children or anybody else with the Gowda title.

Full name: Narendra Damodardas Modi

• NaMo, a portmanteau derived from his first and last names.[16]
• Modiji, a heavily used colloquial term to refer to him.[17][18]