In 1913 Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was awarded the prize for āhis profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verseā and for the skill with which he brought his poetic thought, expressed in English, into Western literature. Tagore was awarded a knighthood in 1915, but he repudiated it in 1919 as a protest against the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in Amritsar, Punjab.
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