Answer» Correct Answer - Option 3 : Ravindranath Tagore
The correct answer is Ravindranath Tagore. - Ravindranath Tagore returned his title of 'knighthood' to the British to protest against the Jalianwala Bagh massacre.
- The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place on 13th April 1919.
- Reginald Dyer ordered troops of the British Indian Army to fire their rifles into a crowd of unarmed Indian civilians.
- At least 379 people were massacred and 1200 injured.
- After this incident shocked Rabindranath Tagore (the first Indian and Asian Nobel laureate) to such an extent that he renounced his knighthood and stated that "such mass murderers aren't worthy of giving any title to anyone".
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi known as Mahatma Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist, who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.
- Gopal Krishna Gokhale was an Indian liberal political leader and a social reformer during the Indian Independence Movement.
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