India, 1914-1945
The period encompassing the two world wars marked more than the worldwide conflict between Fascism and democracy or socialism/Communism. This was also the period in which imperial powers were profoundly challenged by colonized areas demanding to become nation-states in their own right. British India, as the first locus of a full-blown nationalist movement, created a model - the Indian National Congress - soon to be followed across the colonized world, from Southeast Asia to Africa.