In response to the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of April 13, 1919, Rabindranath Tagore renounced the knighthood that he had received from the British crown in 1915. The incident, in which British troops under Brig. Gen. Reginald Dyer fired on an unarmed gathering in Amritsar, Punjab, sparked widespread outrage throughout India. Tagore’s renunciation became one of the most prominent cultural protests against British colonial rule and against the imposition of martial law (temporary military authority over civilian administration) in Punjab following the massacre.
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