How does Rabindranath Tagore protest against the rule of the British Government in India? Or Evaluate Rabindranatlh's lectter as a protest against the British rule in India.

Answer: Rabindranath Tagore had written a letter to Lord Chelmsford in 1219. He primarily wrote it with a view to rejecting
his Knighthood conferred upon bim by the British Governinent. But his "Letter to Lord Chelmsford Rejecting Knighthood" becomes a strong protest against the British ule in India. At first sight, it does
not scem to be a protest against the British Government. Rather it appears as a modest and polite protest against the brutality of the British Indian Governent. But when we read it with much
mconcentration, we find that the ietter mirrors the rebellious character
of Rabindranath. It expresses in an artistic way what he actually felt
against the British colouial rule in India. As a landloid, he could not have actually anmple scope to rciel openly and directly like Kazi Nazrul islam.

The massacre in Jalianwallahbag of Amritsar led Rabindranath to protest against the British rule in India. He is really a true son of India. He is a patriot and a nationalist. He has expressed his patriotic feelings in different ways through the different kinds of his writngs.
His patriotism is strongly revealed in his "Letter to Lord Chelmsford Rejecting Knighthood" too. It does not reject directly the British rule in India. But it can be regarded as a written complaint against the British colonial rule in India. Rabindranath felt the helplessness of
the Indians after the massacre. He also realised the inhumanity of the British colonial rule.He is able to trace the hollowness of the British Indian Government. He accuses the government of falling to control the situation of Pubjab. He makes it sole responsible for the massacre.) So he protests against the inhuman, cruel and uncivilized acts of the British Government.

In his leter, Rabindranath wants to say that the mass killing makes helpless the British subjects in India. He criticises that the British Raj cxercised his terfible power on the harmlesoncopie of Punjab. It also proves that he is not politically expedient. So he has lost his moral justification to rule over the Indians. IHis evil character and inteusions are obviously breught to tight. The Indians get a message that his mighty powef caf destroy atiyining against him. He can do anything for the colonial intergsts. He is able to be oppressive in any time. Thus he poses insulis, sufferings and threais to the in.dians. His callous and relentless attitude pushes thern to take revenge on the British Government. The punishments inflicted upon them were extremely severe. Therefore, Rabindranath had to protest agamst such inhumanity. Thus we find the patriotic and national zeal in Rabindranath Tagore. His rejection of Knighthuod was not only the protest against the Jalianwallahbag massacre of Amritsar but also a very bold protest against the British ruie in India. So his "Letter to Lord Chelmsford Rejecting Knighthood" is an artistic protest against the rule of the British Government in India.