Rabindranath Tagore wrote to the viceroy renouncing his knighthood in protest at colonial repression. Rejecting an imperial honor challenged the prestige through which Britain sought to secure elite loyalty. His letter placed solidarity with humiliated people above recognition from the colonial state.
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Tagore used the renunciation of an imperial honor to protest colonial violence.
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Returning symbolic recognition challenged the legitimacy of the power responsible for the Amritsar massacre.