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• Picket: A person or a group of people protesting outside a building or shop to
prevent others from entering.
• Mahanta: Religious functionaries of Sikh gurudwaras.
• Illegal eviction: Forcible and unlawful throwing out of tenants from the land they
rent.
• RSS: It stands for Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
• Puma Swaraj: Complete independence.
• Provincial Autonomy: Capacity of the provinces to make relatively independent
decisions while remaining within a federation.
• General Constituencies: Election districts with no reservations for any religious or
other community.
• Refugee: One who has been forced to leave his country or home due to some
political, or social reasons.

Time line:

• 1905 – Bengal got partitioned
• 1915 – Mahatma Gandhi came to India from South Africa.
• 1919 – The Rowlatt Satyagraha started. The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre took
place.
• 1920 – The Non-Coopreation Movement started.
• 1922 – Gandhiji called off the Non-Cooperation Movement.

Class 12 Histo