Question

Select the option that shows the correct relationship between Statements (I) and (II).

(I) Rabindranath Tagore expressed the pain and anger of the country by renouncing the knighthood conferred on him by the British in 1919.

(II) Rabindranath Tagore renounced his knighthood in protest against the Partition of Bengal.

Options

• (II) contradicts (I).

• (II) is the reason for (I).

• (I) is true, but (II) is false.

• (I) and (II) are independent of each other.

Answer 1

(I) is true, but (II) is false.

Explanation:

Tagore renounced his knighthood in protest at the Jallianwala Bagh massacre (April 13, 1919), not over the earlier Partition of Bengal.