<P> The medal had three grades . The Kaisar - i - Hind Gold Medal for Public Service in India was awarded directly by the monarch on the recommendation of the Secretary of State for India . Silver and Bronze medals were awarded by the Viceroy . </P> <P> The medal consisted of an oval - shaped badge or decoration in gold, silver or bronze with the Royal Cipher and Monarchy on one side, and the words "Kaisar - i - Hind for Public Service in India" on the other . It was to be worn suspended from the left breast by a dark blue ribbon . The medal has no post-nominal initials . </P> <P> Its most famous recipient is Mohandas Gandhi, who was awarded the Kaisar - i - Hind in 1915 by The Lord Hardinge of Penshurst for his contribution to ambulance services in South Africa . Gandhi returned the medal in 1920 as part of the national campaign protesting the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and in support of the Khilafat Movement . </P> <Ul> <Li> Parukutty Nethyar Amma, awarded the Kaiser - i - Hind medal by King George V in 1919 for public work and came to be known as Lady Rama Varma of Cochin </Li> <Li> Gajadhar Upadhaya, Esq., Chief Regimental Religious Teacher, 1st (K.G.V.s Own) G.R. (Gurkha Rifles) </Li> <Li> Sardar Khan Bahadur Mir Abdul Ali, JP, Bombay, 9 November 1901 </Li> <Li> S. Wadawa Singh Sohi for his services in world war 1 </Li> <Li> Shankar Madhav Chitnavis, Esq., Deputy - Commissioner, Central Provinces, 9 November 1901 </Li> <Li> Khan Bahadur Dhanjibhai Fakirji Commodore, CIE, 9 November 1901 </Li> <Li> Major Herbert Edward Deane, R.A.M.C., 9 Nov 1901 </Li> <Li> Major Thomas Edward Dyson, MB, CM, Indian Medical Service, 9 November 1901 </Li> <Li> William Egerton </Li> <Li> Mrs. E.J. Firth, of Madras, 9 November 1901 </Li> <Li> N.S. Glazebrrok, Esq., JP, of Bombay, 9 November 1901 </Li> <Li> Sydney Hutton Cooper Hutchinson, Esq., AMICE, Superintendent of Telegraphs, 9 November 1901 </Li> <Li> Colonel Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob, KCIE, Indian Staff Corps, 9 November 1901 </Li> <Li> Rai Bahadur Amar Nath Khanna of Lahore, awarded gold medal for his philanthropic work </Li> <Li> Harrington Verney Lovett, Esq., Indian Civil Service, 9 November 1901 </Li> <Li> Herbert Frederick Mayes, Esq., Barrister - at - Law, Indian Civil Service, 9 Nov 1901 </Li> <Li> Lieutenant - Colonel James McCloghry, FRCS, Indian Medical Service, 9 November 1901 </Li> <Li> Miss Eleanor McDougall, awarded Medal of the First Class in June 1923 for her work as Principal of the Women's Christian College, Madras </Li> <Li> Reverend Charles Henry Monahan, awarded Medal of the First Class in February 1937 for his work as General Superintendent, Methodist Missionary Society, Madras </Li> <Li> Mrs. Olive Monahan (wife of Reverend Charles Henry Monahan), awarded Medal of the First Class in June 1920 and awarded a bar to the medal in January 1941 for her work as Chief Medical Officer at the Kalyani Hospital, Madras </Li> <Li> William Florey Noyce, Esq., Extra-Assistant Commissioner and Assistant Secretary to the Financial Commissioner, Burma, 9 November 1901 </Li> <Li> Dr. Thomas Joseph O ′ Donnell, VD, FRCSI, Chief Medical Officer, Kolar Gold Fields, Mysore, 12 December 1911 </Li> <Li> Dr. John David O ′ Donnell, MBE, VD, FRCSEd, Chief Medical and Sanitary Officer, Kolar Gold Fields, Mysore, July 1926 </Li> <Li> Walter Samuel Sharpe, Director of Telegraphs, Bombay, 1 Jan 1916 </Li> <Li> Rai Bahadur KameleshwariPershad Singh of Monghyr, Bengal </Li> <Li> Robert Barton Stewart, Esq., Indian Civil Service, 9 November 1901 </Li> <Li> Dr. William Stokes </Li> <Li> Captain Edmund Wilkinson, FRCS, Indian Medical Service, 9 November 1901 </Li> <Li> Dr. R.N. Chopra, Public Services, Abbottabad, now in Pakistan </Li> <Li> The Rt Hon . Alice Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading </Li> <Li> Sreemathi Panapilla Kartiyani Pilla Bhagavathi Pilla Kochamma, Vadasseri Ammaveedu, daughter of His Highness the Maharaja of Travancore, Madras </Li> <Li> The Right Reverend Bishop Francis Stephen Coppel, Nagpur, Central Provinces </Li> <Li> The Reverend Arthur Herbert Bestall, General Superintendent of Wesleyan Missions in Burma </Li> <Li> Dr. M.E. Ry . Pazhamarneri Sundaram Ayyar Chandra Sekhara, Ayyar Avargal, Director of the Tuberculosis Institute and Hospital, Madras </Li> <Li> Mrs. Cowasji Jehangir, Bombay </Li> <Li> Rai Bahadur, Upendra Nath Brahmachari, Additional Physician, Out - Patient Department, Medical College Hospital, Bengal </Li> <Li> Edwin Sheard, Esq., Adjutant, Salvation Army, United Provinces </Li> <Li> Rai Bahadur Lala Mathra Das, Assistant Surgeon in the Punjab </Li> <Li> Pir Puran Nath Mahant, Mahant of Bohar in the Rohtak district, Punjab </Li> <Li> Sir Francis William Maclean </Li> <Li> Richard Burn, for famine services in 1907--08 </Li> <Li> Roderick Henry Turing Mackenzie, Esq . AMICE, Chief Engineer Buildings and Roads, Bikaner State, for drought relief services, 1940 </Li> </Ul>

Who returned the knighthood conferred on him by british goverment after jallianwala bagh massacre