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SSC Selection Post 2023 PYQ — Question 41

SSC Selection Post - Higher Secondary Level 2023 - 27 June 2023 - Shift 3 • General Awareness • Q41

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Who among the following returned his/her medal of Kaisar-i-Hind in 1920?
 

 

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Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is Option 4 i.e. Mahatma Gandhi.

  • The Kaisar-i-Hind medal was awarded to Mahatma Gandhi in 1915 by Lord Hardinge, the then-Viceroy of India, for his contributions to ambulance services in South Africa. 
  • In 1920, Gandhi returned the medal as a symbolic protest against the British government's actions, including the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and the handling of the Khilafat issue. 

Other Options:

  • Sir Subbier Subramania Iyer: He was an Indian lawyer, jurist and freedom fighter who, along with Annie Besant, founded the Home Rule Movement. He was popularly known as the "Grand Old Man of South India."
  • Sarojini Naidu: She was an Indian political activist and poet who served as the first Governor of United Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh). She was the first Indian woman to be president of the Indian National Congress.
  • Rabindranath Tagore: He was first Indian to win a Nobel Prize was Rabindranath Tagore in 1913. He won it for his English translation of the Bengali poetry collection "Gitanjali."