Rabindranath Tagore was the Bengali poet awarded the Knighthood by the British Crown in 1915.
- He surrendered this prestigious title in 1919 to protest the Jallianwala Bagh massacre (Amritsar massacre), making him the first person known to return a knighthood.
- Awarded: 1915 by King George V.
- Returned: 1919 to protest British atrocities.
- Context: He is the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1913)