`  *Support. A google Books search for ``Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi``, in quotes, gets 14,800 results; ``Mahatma Gandhi``, in quotes, gets 249,000 results: a different order of magnitude. If ``Mahatma Ghandi`` were not in more common use, then you would expect most if not all of the books found under ``Mahatma Gandhi`` also to contain ``Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi``. Apparently they don't. All of the titles on the first page of the former search results do not have ``Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi`` in the title; all but one of the titles in the first six pages of the latter have ````Mahatma Gandhi`` in the title. Only three of the books on the first page of the former have a proper cover image; all of the books in the first seven pages of the latter do. That is some indication of the quality of the sources thrown up by the searches. The assertion that ``Mahatma`` is not common use simply is not tenable. The IMOS argument is a red herring: IMOS is concerned with POV use of titles, not with common use. ``His Holiness Pope John Paul`` or ``Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth`` do not appear often in book titles.    `