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Q32 (IAS/2004) History & Culture › National Movement (1857–1947) › Nationalist leaders Answer Verified

The name of the famous person of India who returned the Knighthood conferred on him by the British Government as a token of protest against the atrocities in Punjab in 1919 was:

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The knighthood was returned by Rabindranath Tagore as a direct protest against the brutalities in Punjab in 1919, especially the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. Contemporary accounts note that many prominent Indians renounced their British titles in outrage, and Rabindranath Tagore was among them, renouncing his knighthood immediately after the massacre [1]. Sources recording the aftermath of the incident explicitly state that Tagore gave up his knighthood in protest, alongside other high-profile symbolic rejections (for example, Gandhi relinquishing the title of Kaiser-i-Hind), underscoring the national shock and moral repudiation of British actions in Amritsar [2].

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  1. [1] History , class XII (Tamilnadu state board 2024 ed.) > Chapter 4: Advent of Gandhi and Mass Mobilisation > b) Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre > p. 47
  2. [2] Rajiv Ahir. A Brief History of Modern India (2019 ed.). SPECTRUM. > Chapter 15: Emergence of Gandhi > Satyagraha Against the Rowlatt Act— First Mass Strike > p. 323
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