The correct answer is (c). Shankaran Nair resigned from the membership of Viceroy’s Executive Council as a protest against Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.
Shankaran Nair was a prominent Indian lawyer, politician, and social reformer. He was a member of the Indian National Congress and served as a member of the Viceroy’s Executive Council from 1915 to 1919. He resigned from the Council in protest against the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, which took place on April 13, 1919, in Amritsar, Punjab. In a letter to the Viceroy, Lord Chelmsford, Nair wrote:
“I have been a member of your Council for four years, and during that time I have tried to serve you to the best of my ability. But I cannot continue to serve you in a position which involves my approval of the policy which has led to the massacre of innocent people at Amritsar. I therefore resign my membership of your Council.”
Nair’s resignation was a significant gesture of protest against the massacre. It was also a sign of the growing discontent among Indians with British rule.
The other options are incorrect. Mahatma Gandhi was a prominent Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and civil rights activist. He employed nonviolent civil disobedience as a means to achieve independence for India. Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Jamnalal Bajaj was an Indian industrialist, educationist, and philanthropist. He was a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi and a member of the Indian National Congress.