Rabindranath Tagore gave up his knighthood as a result of which of the following events?
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Correct answer: C
Explanation
The correct answer is option 3 i.e. Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
Rabindranath Tagore, the renowned poet and Nobel laureate, renounced his knighthood in 1919 as a powerful act of protest against the horrific Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.Deeply distressed by the brutal and indiscriminate firing on unarmed civilians by British troops, Tagore felt that he could no longer hold a title bestowed by a government capable of such barbarity. He wrote a strongly worded letter to the Viceroy, expressing his outrage and solidarity with the suffering Indian people, stating that the time had come when "tokens of honour made the country's shame glaring in their incongruous context of humiliation."