What did rabindranath tagore do with the nobel prize?
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After the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre Rabindranath Tagore handed over the Nobel prize back to the British because he was ashamed of such a pitifull act the British made.
General dyer fired bullet rounds towards the people who had gathered at Jallianwala Bagh at Amritsar on 13th April 1919.
Jallianwalabagh had only one gateway which the British blocked and the crowd had no way to escape.
This was one of the most terrific act of the British against the Indians.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913 was awarded to Rabindranath Tagore which includes a medal, a citation and a cash prize of 8,000 pounds.
He was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
According to records, Tagore used the money he received as part of the Nobel prize to set up the Vishwa Bharti University.
This was often touted as Tagore ‘s dream project, a university town sprawled across Shantiniketan, a town initially developed by his father Devendra Nath Tagore.
At present, Shantiniketan is a very popular place in West bengal.