Which Indian personality was given knighthood by the British monarch but he returned it after the Ja...........

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Which Indian personality was given knighthood by the British monarch but he returned it after the Jallianwala massacre?

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SSC CPO 9th Dec 2019 Shift-2

Rabindranath Tagore

Motilal Nehru

Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Aurobindo Ghosh

- Option 1: Rabindranath Tagore

- Rabindranath Tagore was a renowned poet, writer, and philosopher from India.

- He was awarded a knighthood by the British in 1915.

- In protest of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919, Tagore returned his knighthood as an act of defiance against the British government.

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- Option 2: Motilal Nehru

- He was an influential Indian lawyer and leader of the Indian National Congress.

- He didn't receive a knighthood from the British.

- Option 3: Gopal Krishna Gokhale

- He was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and a social reformer.

- He wasn't awarded a knighthood by the British.

- Option 4: Aurobindo Ghosh

- He was an Indian philosopher, yogi, and nationalist.

- He wasn't knighted by the British monarch either.

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