Renounced his knighthood in protest of Jallianwala Bagh mass killing

Question of The Day01-07-2023

______ renounced his knighthood in protest of the Jallianwalla Bagh mass killing.

Answer

Correct Answer : b ) Rabindranath Tagore

Explanation :

Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter.

He became the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

He was awarded a knighthood by King George V in 1915.

Tagore renounced his knighthood in 1919 in response to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

Jallianwala Bagh Massacre took place on 13 April 1919 when General Dyer ordered the army to fire at an unarmed crowd gathered in Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar on the occasion of Baisakhi.

Hence, (b) is the correct answer.

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