Multiple choice general knowledge history

Who left Nighthood title after Jalianwala Bagh massacre?

  1. Rabindranath Tagore

  2. Ashutosh Mukherjee

  3. Lord Bentinck

  4. MK Gandhi
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Explanation

Rabindranath Tagore renounced his Knighthood title in 1919 to protest the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. Ashutosh Mukherjee was an educationist, Lord Bentinck was a 19th-century Viceroy, and MK Gandhi returned his Kaiser-i-Hind medal but was never knighted. The question has a typo: 'Nighthood' should be 'Knighthood'.

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Rabindranath Tagore renounced his British knighthood in protest after the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar, where British troops fired on unarmed civilians. He wrote directly to the Viceroy stating he could no longer hold an honor associated with such brutality. The other figures listed were not knighted by the British in this way.

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