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Who returned the title of ‘Sir’ received from the British government in protest against the brutal atrocities committed in Punjab in 1919?
Rabindranath Tagore renounced his Knighthood (the title of ‘Sir’) in May 1919, shortly after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. In a stinging letter to the Viceroy, Lord Chelmsford, he stated that “the time has come when badges of honor make our shame glaring in their incongruous context of humiliation.” This act was a powerful moral protest against British colonial brutality. ANSWER: (B) Rabindranath Tagore
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