Rabindranath Tagore gave up his knighthood because of:

Correct option is A

The correct answer is (a) Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
Explanation:
. Rabindranath Tagore renounced his British knighthood on 8 June 1919.
. This act was in protest against the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre that occurred on 13 April 1919 at Amritsar.
. In his letter to the Viceroy, Lord Chelmsford, Tagore condemned the massacre as a grave moral crime by the British government.
. The knighthood had been conferred on Tagore in 1915.
. His renunciation became a powerful symbol of intellectual and moral resistance to colonial oppression.
Information Booster:
. The massacre involved indiscriminate firing ordered by General Dyer on unarmed civilians.
. Tagore was the first non-European Nobel laureate in Literature (1913) for Gitanjali.
Additional Knowledge:
Brutal suppression of civil disobedience (Option b)
. Refers mainly to events during the Civil Disobedience Movement in the 1930s.
. Not the immediate cause of Tagore’s renunciation in 1919.
Execution of Bhagat Singh (Option c)
. Bhagat Singh was executed in 1931, much later than Tagore’s action.
. Hence, unrelated to the knighthood renunciation.
Chauri-Chaura incident (Option d)
. Occurred in 1922 during the Non-Cooperation Movement.
. Tagore had already given up his knighthood by then.