When a leader is charismatic or agreeable enough to win over the hearts of enough people, it's easy for that support to take on a character that almost seems like worship.
While it can happen despite that leader's best intentions, there are also cases throughout history in which these figures have taken advantage to that reverence and built a cult of personality around themselves.
For Joseph Stalin, for example, it wasn't enough to be the Premier of the Soviet Union. He also had to be known as The Benevolent Friend of All Children, The Mountain Eagle, The Greatest Genius of All Times, and The Most Profound Theoretician of Contemporary Times, as well as other frankly ridiculous epithets.
But while this phenomenon often manifests itself the most in the country this leader has the most influence in, an unusual case from India shows it's not impossible for others throughout the world to get swept up in the feeling.
