State your opinion: Ravindranath Tagore gave up his title (Sir).

Answer: I agree that Ravindranath Tagore gave up his knighthood as a protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

• The British passed the Rowlatt Act (1919), which allowed arrest and imprisonment without trial; people protested all over India.
• On 13 April 1919 General Dyer ordered firing on an unarmed peaceful gathering at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar; hundreds of men, women and children were killed.
• Shocked by this cruelty, Ravindranath Tagore returned the title of ‘Sir’ (knighthood) given by the British government, saying such honours were shameful when his countrymen were humiliated.
• In my opinion this was a bold act of protest that expressed the anger of the whole nation.